California virtue signalers who sent trillions of gallons of rainwater into the ocean, and allowed huge amounts of dead trees, excess brush, and other fuel to accumulate in their forests, are now paying the price for their virtue signalling. But instead of being mad at themselves for doing these horrible these, they are mad at people such as myself for pointing it out.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
January 9, 2025
California virtue signalers who sent trillions of gallons of rainwater into the ocean, and allowed huge amounts of dead trees, excess brush, and other fuel to accumulate in their forests, are now paying the price for their virtue signalling.
They chose to ignore warnings from people such as myself.
What’s happening now in California is self inflicted.
But instead of being mad at themselves for doing these horrible these, they are mad at people such as myself for pointing it out.
In 2023, the Los Angles Times wrote the following:
Environmental rules stoke anger as California lets precious stormwater wash out to sea
By Hayley Smith
January 20, 2023
Environmental rules designed to protect imperiled fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have ignited anger among a group of bipartisan lawmakers, who say too much of California’s stormwater is being washed out to sea instead of being pumped to reservoirs and aqueducts.
In a series of strongly worded letters, nearly a dozen legislators — many from drought-starved agriculture regions of the Central Valley —have implored state and federal officials to relax environmental pumping restrictions that are limiting the amount of water captured from the delta.
“When Mother Nature blesses us with rain, we need to save the water, instead of dumping it into the ocean,” Assemblymember Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) wrote in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Since the beginning of January, a series of atmospheric rivers has disgorged trillions of gallons of much-needed moisture across drought-stricken California, but only a small fraction of that water has so far made it into storage. In the delta — the heart of the state’s vast water system — nearly 95% of incoming water has flowed into the Pacific Ocean, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
And in 2017, Mother Jones wrote the following:
A Century of Fire Suppression Is Why California Is in Flames
“The wake-up call has already happened.”
December 12, 2017
The acrid smell of charred wood still permeates the air as Sasha Berleman, a fire ecologist, and I walk along a dirt path up through the middle of a canyon in the Bouverie nature preserve in Sonoma Valley.
On the left side, the earth is black as tar, and scorch marks as tall as a person scar the trunks of the mature oak trees scattered throughout the field.
But on the right side, the ground is tan and brown, and you have to look hard at the still-green oaks to see any evidence of the fire that raged through here just a few weeks before.
It’s no mystery to Berleman why the fire behaved so differently on the two sides of the trail at Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Bouverie Preserve.
When flames hit the field on the left of the path, they met a dense wall of thigh-high grass that hadn’t been mowed, grazed or burned for 20 years. The flames must have been 5 or 6 feet tall.
On the right side, however, Berleman had set a prescribed burn just this spring. So when the October wildfire hit, patches of fire blazed, but with so little fuel, the flames remained only inches high.
All of these things were done by virtue signalers who wanted to tell the world that they were better, smarter, and morally superior to everyone else.
And now, in January 2025, we are seeing the results of their irrational policies.
Check out these recent headlines:
Fires in California decimate Los Angeles area, leave apocalyptic scenes
January 9, 2025
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles
Thousands of homes burned in Palisades
January 9, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-california-climate-603512236222f82c77901db1039e959f
Fire hydrants ran dry in Southern California just when they were needed most
January 8, 2025
Hollywood stars share devastation from California fires
January 9, 2025
This is what happens when people choose virtue signalling over common sense.
But instead of blaming themselves for deliberately sending trillions of gallons of rainwater into the ocean, and instead of blaming themselves for deliberately allowing huge amounts of dead trees, excess brush, and other fuel to accumulate in the forests, they are blaming people such as myself for pointing it out.
A smart person learns from their own mistakes.
A genius learns from other people’s mistakes.
A virtue signaler never learns, period.
The people of California can virtue signal all they want.
But they can’t hide from the real world results of their virtue signalling.
And the more that they get mad at people such myself for pointing it out, instead of getting mad at themselves for causing these horrific problems in the first place, the more they show the entire world what their true priorities are.
Environmental rules stoke anger as California lets precious stormwater wash out to sea
Environmental rules stoke anger as California lets precious stormwater wash out to sea
By Hayley Smith
January 20, 2023
Environmental rules designed to protect imperiled fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have ignited anger among a group of bipartisan lawmakers, who say too much of California’s stormwater is being washed out to sea instead of being pumped to reservoirs and aqueducts.
In a series of strongly worded letters, nearly a dozen legislators — many from drought-starved agriculture regions of the Central Valley —have implored state and federal officials to relax environmental pumping restrictions that are limiting the amount of water captured from the delta.
“When Mother Nature blesses us with rain, we need to save the water, instead of dumping it into the ocean,” Assemblymember Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) wrote in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Since the beginning of January, a series of atmospheric rivers has disgorged trillions of gallons of much-needed moisture across drought-stricken California, but only a small fraction of that water has so far made it into storage. In the delta — the heart of the state’s vast water system — nearly 95% of incoming water has flowed into the Pacific Ocean, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The calls by lawmakers have reignited a long-simmering debate over where — and to whom — the state’s precious water supplies should go.
“With so much excess water in the system, there is no reason that exports south of the Delta cannot be increased,” read another letter that State Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) and Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains (D-Bakersfield) addressed to Newsom.
But experts say it’s not that simple.
While the delta provides drinking water for about 27 million Californians and supports the state’s massive agricultural industry, it is also a delicate ecosystem that is home to threatened and endangered species — many of which have been suffering amid warming waters, increasing salinity, dangerously low flows and other ecological stressors. The tiny delta smelt are dangerously close to extinction.
State and federal water managers said they have been complying with environmental regulations designed to protect those species, including a so-called “first flush” protocol that mandates two weeks of reduced pumping at the onset of the first big winter storms.
The flush provides the fish with enough time and water to move away from the powerful pumps, which have been known to chew them up.
“There are reasons that there are restrictions on pumping, and each of them is founded in some way, shape or form on trying to conserve habitat for listed species,” said Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.
Mount said it would be a mistake to ignore the environmental benefits of the water. The smelt are akin to a “canary in the coal mine” for the entire health of the delta, he said, and the first flush is biologically very important for the dynamics of the estuary.
“If we take actions which are helpful to smelt, we’ll help an array of other native fishes and the native ecosystem,” he said.
The first flush protocol stems from biological opinions issued by the Trump administration in 2019 and from incidental take permits issued by the Newsom administration in 2020. Some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, however, are calling for the rules to be revised.
From Jan. 3-16, pumping rates in the delta were reduced to nearly half of their capacity in accordance with the protocol, resulting in a loss of about 84,000 acre-feet of exports from the area, according to estimates from the Public Policy Institute. That’s enough water to irrigate 25,000 acres of farmland for a year or supply 150,000 homes.
“Government regulations should not and must not deny our constituents critical water from these storms,” U.S. Rep. David Valadao (R-Hanford) and five other Republican lawmakers wrote in a letter to Newsom and President Biden last week. “We have a moral obligation to provide Californians any relief that is within our control.”
But the environment also suffers when delta water is diverted for agricultural and urban use, said Felicia Marcus, a fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West Program.
“It’s always the fish that get shorted, and we destroyed the ecosystem as a result,” she said. “There are dry years where we’re diverting 80% to 90% of the flow during critical times of year. Well, no ecosystem survives with that kind of diversion, so we have to manage the system differently and share more of it with nature.”
She and Mount said that even with the two-week protocol, the state will still have time to capture more water. Patterns from previous wet years, including 2011, 2017 and 2019, indicate that the delta will continue to flow at high rates for at least the next few weeks. That means more time to fill the San Luis Reservoir, the delta’s key water reserve.
The reservoir, which is currently at 48% capacity, will also be filled by the state’s melting snowpack, which was at 245% of normal for the date on Thursday.
“Right now we’ve got a bonanza of snow, and it’s looking pretty good at this particular time of year, so the idea of shorting these poor fish and the ecosystem in a time of somewhat plenty isn’t very compelling,” Marcus said.
Still, there’s no denying that stormwater capture remains a point of frustration in California — especially as millions of residents are being asked to cut back and conserve more water than ever.
“We must make the most of the heavy precipitation we are receiving and use it to our advantage,” Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) wrote in a letter to state and federal officials. He called for increased flexibility on the first flush rule.
Such flexibility would have made a difference during the recent storms, according to Jennifer Pierre, general manager of State Water Contractors, a nonprofit association of public water agencies.
Rather than tying the first flush protocol to a two-week calendar, it should be driven by real-time measurements and hydrology, she said.
“There was no off-ramp or monitoring or flexibility in either of the permits to allow us to make that call,” she said. “There’s a big lesson learned here.”
But it’s also important to be strategic about how quickly reservoirs are being filled, said Mark Gold, an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Gold said it would be worrisome if the San Luis Reservoir were 100% full so early in the wet season.
“Hopefully the memory of what happened at Oroville is not lost on people’s minds,” he said, referencing the 2017 crisis in which high water levels nearly overtopped the massive Oroville Dam. “That really demonstrated how important reservoir management, volume management, really is. … It’s not quite as simple as looking at percentages and flows.”
And while reservoir storage is important, it would behoove officials to devote more focus to groundwater recharge, or the replenishment of the state’s overdrafted aquifers, he said. Even operating at full capacity, the pumps would not have been able to capture anywhere near the amount of water that ultimately made its way to the San Francisco Bay.
“Really, maximizing replenishment in the Central Valley should be one of the highest priorities in the state of California,” Gold said.
State officials acknowledge there are flaws in the system. In a written response to lawmakers’ concerns, Department of Water Resources director Karla Nemeth said current infrastructure to move water through the delta is “outdated, vulnerable to climate change and earthquakes, and limits the export of water during these long, sustained winter storm events.”
She said it’s an argument for a proposed $16-billion tunnel that would allow more water to be moved into state and federal aqueducts during storm events, while also protecting fish from pumps. Versions of the controversial Delta Conveyance Project have been around for decades, but the state is advancing its progress, Nemeth said.
Had it been operating during the recent storms, the tunnel would have moved about 188,000 more acre-feet of water into the San Luis Reservoir from the delta, or enough to supply nearly 2 million people for a year, according to the department.
Marcus, who formerly served as chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, said she could understand some of the frustration around the loss of water during the recent storms, but managing the state’s spigots will always require a delicate balance.
“Your job is trying to maximize all of these uses as best you can, not pick total winners and losers,” she said. “Everybody sees every drop they didn’t get as a drop that was wrongfully given to somebody else … so that’s just part of the challenge.”
California Loses Trillions of Gallons of Water After Years of Drought
California Loses Trillions of Gallons of Water After Years of Drought
February 22, 2023
California has suffered from extreme droughts for years now – but the state didn’t capitalize on a series of heavy storms in late 2022 and early 2023 that brought trillions of gallons of rainwater to the state. Governor Gavin Newsom has received criticism for this from both sides of the aisle, and it remains to be seen how the state will prioritize water infrastructure moving forward.
What Happened?
According to the FOX Forecast Center, the heavy storms plaguing California since late December of 2022 brought an estimated 32 trillion gallons of rainwater to the state. Information from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that this amount could supply the state’s agricultural, industrial, and residential needs for at least a decade if it were to be stored in reservoirs. But only about 5 to 6 percent of the incoming water was captured, with about 95 percent of the rainwater getting flushed out to sea instead. This is because of environmental restrictions put in place to protect endangered fish species in California’s Central Valley, such as the Delta smelt.
Governor Newsom Under Fire
The missed opportunity to use rainwater to ease California’s drought problems drew criticism from both sides of the aisle. U.S. Representative Jim Costa (D-Fresno) wrote a letter to Newsom calling on state and federal agencies to maximize water pumping, arguing that this action would have little impact on endangered species. Costa encouraged the state to use “dynamic” strategies to respond faster to changing weather patterns and conditions like those posed by the heavy storms.
Assemblyman Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) wrote another letter to Newsom in January. “Farmers need water to save for the coming dry months,” he wrote, “in order to grow the food we eat, and communities need water for homes and businesses.”
Politicians on both sides are encouraging the state to build new water reservoirs as an alternative to encouraging citizens to conserve as much water as they can. Most of California’s water dams and reservoirs were built between the 1940s and 1960s. In 2014, the state received billions to fund new water storage projects, but so far, none have been completed.
Desalination: A Possible Solution
Some politicians are encouraging California to look toward new solutions, such as desalination plants, which are used in other desert climates around the world, like Dubai. State Assemblyman Bill Essayli (R-Corona) said that “the fundamental problem is that there’s no appetite or will to actually solve this issue and deal with the environmental groups that are relentless in their opposition to any water storage infrastructure.” He called on Governor Newsom to reform the California Environmental Quality Act and streamline the approval process of new water reservoir projects.
Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids play “Drive My Car” by the Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZloOovVHg
This BBC article explains why the U.S. needs help from India’s technologically superior workforce.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1877176172921929779
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27775327
Why do millions of Indians defecate in the open?
By Shannti Dinnoo
June 17, 2014
It’s early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi.
Along the tracks, another crowd is gathering – each person on his own, separated by a modest distance. They are among the 48% of Indians who do not have access to proper sanitation.
Coming from a slum close-by, they squat among the few trees and bushes along the railway tracks and defecate in the open.
To many, this is a daily morning ritual despite the hazards of contracting diseases such as diarrhoea and hepatitis.
It can be even more hazardous for women since each time a woman uses the outdoors to relieve herself, she faces a danger of sexual assault.
Recently two teenage girls from the state of Uttar Pradesh were gang-raped and found hanging from a tree after they left their village home to go to the toilet. Their house, like hundreds of millions of others in the country, did not have any facilities.
‘No privacy’
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report says more than half a billion people in India still “continue to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or in open water bodies, with no dignity or privacy”.
Access to sanitation is a challenge that India’s politicians want to tackle – both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised to put an end to open defecation in their 2014 general election manifestos.
During his campaign, Narendra Modi, BJP’s newly-elected prime minister, promised: “Toilets first, temples later”.
And former rural development minister Jairam Ramesh of the Congress party had stressed that “practicing good hygiene is as important as performing good puja” (act of worship in Hinduism).
India’s government offers cash incentives to subsidise construction of toilets. It has also initiated hygiene and sanitation awareness campaigns, such as the “No Toilet, No Bride” slogan launched in the state of Haryana in 2005, urging brides to reject a groom if he did not have a lavatory at home.
The Gates Foundation too has offered grants to create latrines that are not connected to water, sewer or electricity and to improve the treatment of human waste.
‘Lack of focus’
The exhibits at a recent “toilet fair” organised by the Foundation in Delhi included a lavatory with a photovoltaic roof-top that powers a reactor breaking down excrements into fertiliser, and another one which came equipped with an automatic sterilisation system and a generator turning the moisture into water.
Apart from poverty and lack of lavatories, one of the reasons often cited to explain open defecation in India is the ingrained cultural norm making the practice socially accepted in some parts of the society.
“Just building toilets is not going to solve the problem, because open defecation is a practice acquired from the time you learn how to walk. When you grow up in an environment where everyone does it, even if later in life you have access to proper sanitation, you will revert back to it,” says Sue Coates, chief of Wash (water, sanitation and hygiene) at Unicef.
India will be free of open defecation only when “every Indian household, every village, every part of Indian society will accept the need to use toilets and commit to do so”, she says.
Professor at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology Meera Mehta says the strategies implemented so far may not have the expected impact because of a “lack of focus”.
“With the right policies and political attention, India can be free from open defecation within 10 years.
14 Minneapolis police officers have just sworn under oath that MPD Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell committed perjury when she said that their police officers were not trained to do what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd.
14 Minneapolis police officers have just sworn under oath that MPD Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell committed perjury when she said that their police officers were not trained to do what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd.
This article includes pictures from their police training which allegedly prove that Blackwell did indeed commit perjury. I am posting those pictures here.
If it can be proven that Blackwell did indeed commit perjury, then it’s possible that Chauvin has been wrongly convicted.
I am trying very hard to be objective on this. I know that it’s a very controversial issue. I’m also aware that all humans, including me, have a tendency to be biased.
I want to find out the objective truth. Did Blackwell commit perjury or not?
Source of images:
Sreemoy Talukdar says that it is “impossible for firms to hire foreign workers by bypassing Americans qualified for the job.” The New York Times disagrees with him.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1876346543080407127
Explosion of racism against Indians reflects ineptitude and irreversible decay of Western society
By Sreemoy Talukdar
January 6, 2025
… the US has legal safeguards in place that make it impossible for firms to hire foreign workers by bypassing Americans qualified for the job.
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Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements
June 3, 2015
ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.
While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.
Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.
“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” said one former worker, an American in his 40s who remains unemployed since his last day at Disney on Jan. 30. “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.”
The layoffs at Disney and at other companies, including the Southern California Edison power utility, are raising new questions about how businesses and outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the United States. These visas are at the center of a fierce debate in Congress over whether they complement American workers or displace them.
New York City Democrats have given a guy named Jamar Banks permission to assault, stab, and shoot as many people as he wants. So far, he’s been arrested and released 87 times.
Knife-wielding maniac with 87 priors on the loose in NYC after two subway stabbings, cops say
By Tina Moore
A knife-wielding maniac with a history of mental illness and 87 prior arrests is wanted in connection with at least two stabbings in the subway this week, The Post has learned.
Cops searching for Jamar Banks were warned to use “extreme caution” when encountering him because he is believed to be armed with “a large knife,” according to a message sent to police officers and obtained by The Post.
Banks, 52, is known to frequent the No. 2 and No. 5 subway lines, authorities said in the message.
He’s being sought in connection with stabbings on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, according to the NYPD.
A surveillance photo allegedly shows Banks holding the knife in gloved hands.
“He has a very very lengthy arrest history,” a police source said. “It looks like he rides the rails back and forth.”
Banks is wanted for allegedly approaching a 31-year-old man from behind on a 2 train at 14th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on Wednesday and starting an argument, before stabbing him in the back and running away.
He’s also suspected of knifing an off-duty MTA cleaner in the back and armpit around 6 a.m. Thursday, after starting an argument with the victim on a northbound 6 train platform at the Pelham Bay station in the Bronx, police said.
The attacker fled after the stabbing.
Both victims were taken to hospitals in stable condition.
Banks’ rap sheet includes arrests for charges including attempted murder, weapons possession, assault, criminal trespassing, turnstile jumping and petty larceny, police sources said.
Banks allegedly stabbed a man in the leg with a kitchen knife on a Manhattan subway around 11 p.m. on Oct. 19, 2022, cops said.
The 26-year-old victim told police he boarded the northbound No. 2 train at Fulton Street and that his attacker got on at 72nd Street and attempted to sit on his girlfriend’s lap, police said.
When the victim asked Banks to step back, Banks allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the lower left leg.
The officers who responded applied a tourniquet and the victim was taken to a hospital, cops said.
Banks was arrested on Dec. 14 for the attack and charged with assault with intent to cause injury with a weapon. It wasn’t immediately clear what happened to the case after that.
In June 2015, Banks was accused of bursting out of a McDonald’s bathroom at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan and stabbing a man who had knocked on the door to see if the facility was occupied, the police sources said.
In June 1997, Banks was charged with attempted murder after a man bumped into him, allegedly prompting Banks to shoot the man in the leg, the sources said.
The victim told cops he was walking on East 226th Street in the Bronx when a man bumped into him. He kept walking and was about to go into a store when Banks allegedly opened fire, the sources said.
Banks, who was 24 at the time, was charged with intent to commit murder, assault with intent to cause serious injury with a weapon, criminal use of a firearm in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, cops said.
The outcome of the case wasn’t immediately clear.
Muslim Claims He Didn’t Know Rape Was Illegal; Spared Prison by UK Court
Muslim Claims He Didn’t Know Rape Was Illegal; Spared Prison by UK Court
By Stoyan Zaimov
January 29, 2013
An 18-year-old man in the U.K. who raped a 13-year-old girl was spared a prison sentence by Nottingham Crown Court after he claimed that his Muslim upbringing did not teach him to respect women.
“Although chronologically 18, it is quite clear from the reports that you are very naive and immature when it comes to sexual matters,” Judge Michael Stokes said when handing Adil Rashid a suspended sentence.
Rashid claimed in his defense that he met his 13-year-old victim through Facebook and the two exchanged messages for two months, before they met up in Nottingham. The teen admitted to having sex with the girl, but said that he was not aware that the activity was illegal and constituted rape, because he was raised with a Muslim education and was not aware of the law.
The Daily Mail reported that such crimes usually result in a four- to seven-year prison sentence, but because the judge deemed that Rashid was “passive” and “lacking assertiveness,” it would be unwise to send him to haul because it might cause him “more damage than good.”
The 13-year-old girl, who was not named, confessed to having a sexual encounter with the man to a school friend, who informed one of her teachers. This eventually led to Rashid’s arrest.
In court, the 18-year-old said that he received his education at an Islamic school within the U.K., and had “little experience of women.” The school, which also could not be named, apparently taught him that “women are no more worthy than a lollipop that has been dropped on the ground.”
The man claims that he found out that his actions were illegal only after a family member told him so.
Judge Stokes initially said that Rashid “must have known it was illegal, unless he was going round with his eyes shut,” but defense lawyer Laban Leake successfully argued that his client had a “degree of sexual naivety.”
The Sun added that Rashid also said the girl had “tempted” him into sex and that he later said that he felt bad for his actions.
“I accept this was a case where the girl was quite willing to have sexual activity with you. But the law is there to protect young girls, even though they are perfectly happy to engage in sexual activity,” Stokes concluded.
Elon Musk: Jess Phillips deserves to be in prison over Labour refusal to launch grooming inquiry
Elon Musk: Jess Phillips deserves to be in prison over Labour refusal to launch grooming inquiry
Kemi Badenoch joins widespread criticism of decision, saying rape gang investigation was ‘long overdue’
By Dominic Penna
January 2, 2025
Labour has come under fire after refusing to hold a public inquiry into historic sexual abuse by grooming gangs in Oldham.
Elon Musk attacked the decision as “disgraceful” and Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said a full national inquiry into rape gangs was “long overdue”.
Jess Phillips, Labour’s safeguarding minister, insisted it was “for Oldham council alone” to decide whether to launch an investigation into alleged exploitation between 2011 and 2014.
A 2022 report found children in Oldham were failed by agencies that were meant to protect them amid alleged grooming by “predominantly Pakistani offenders” in council homes, shisha bars and by taxi drivers.
Oldham council’s Labour group last year agreed to support an independent inquiry, writing twice to Ms Phillips urging the Home Office to support this work.
The minister replied: “It is for Oldham Council alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the Government to intervene…
“I welcome the council’s resolution to do so, as set out in your letter, and to continue its important work with victims and survivors.”
Responding to a report on Ms Phillip’s remarks on his social media platform X, Mr Musk claimed that she “deserves to be in prison”.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874575303626174956
Mrs Badenoch also shared her view on the platform on Thursday and said: “The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal.
“Trials have taken place all over the country in recent years but no one in authority has joined the dots. 2025 must be the year that the victims start to get justice.”
Responding to Mrs Badenoch, Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, said: “Talk is cheap. The Conservatives had 14 years in government to launch an inquiry. The establishment has failed the victims of grooming gangs on every level.”
The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal.
Trials have taken place all over the country in recent years but no one in authority has joined the dots.
https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1874749990842814606
The tech billionaire has emerged as a vocal critic of Sir Keir Starmer and his government in recent months and will have a major role in Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
In further posts, Mr Musk accused Ms Phillips of a “disgraceful” decision and suggested she had rejected an inquiry in order to shield Sir Keir from blame.
He continued: “In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects.
“Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008–2013.
“Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer [sic]. The real reason she’s refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Starmer [head of the CPS at the time].”
In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects.
Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874664089894695221
Sir Keir ordered a comprehensive review of CPS guidelines on sexual exploitation as chief prosecutor in 2012, admitting the service had failed a generation of girls who were abused.
He said at the time that there was “clearly an issue of ethnicity” in a number of grooming cases and that prosecutors should not “shy away from that”.
Sir Keir added: “But if we’re honest it’s the approach to victims, the credibility issue, that caused these cases not to be prosecuted in the past. There was a lack of understanding.”
He went on to blame misleading “assumptions, myths and stereotypes” about sexual violence that led prosecuting lawyers to downplay the credibility of witnesses.
Too many still won’t admit the truth about child grooming gangs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/16/too-many-wont-admit-truth-about-child-grooming-gangs/
Too many still won’t admit the truth about child grooming gangs
We must secure justice for thousands of girls and also ensure that this type of industrial-scale cover-up isn’t repeated
By Suella Braverman
September 16, 2024
There are some people you never forget. For me, I’ll always remember that meeting in Rochdale with the brave women who had survived brutal sexual abuse. They told me how, as young girls, they had been preyed upon, trafficked and raped, mainly by Pakistani and Afghan men.
One woman told me how the violent sexual abuse had started when she was just 12 and how she had thereafter fallen pregnant. I heard how one woman had been raped by more than 150 men by the time she was 16.
They told me how police officers, social workers, teachers and councillors all knew about the paedophilia but turned a blind eye for fear of being called racist. They spoke angrily about how the authorities refused to believe them. The truth was covered up out of fear of inflaming racial tension.
They told me how grateful they were to the handful of professionals like Maggie Oliver – a policewoman whistle-blower – who saved their lives. The truth is that the Rochdale and Rotherham grooming scandals are one of the biggest injustices in our country and no one should ever forget what happened, and what still happens, in many parts of our country.
Last week, sentences totalling more than 100 years were handed down to seven Rotherham perpetrators. Credit must be given to the police and CPS for pursuing these investigations, eventually.
Child sexual abuse cases can take years to build, involve the handling of complex and sensitive evidence and depend on the courage of the victims who have to re-live the ordeal in court for convictions to be secured. The survivors have shown immense fortitude.
As Home Secretary I was passionate about making progress on this national scandal. Last year we set up a specialist task force, led by the National Crime Agency, to galvanise the investigative work with the police. I worked with the task force closely; it secured over 500 new arrests in its first year. Sadly, much was left undone by the time of the general election and so there is still a lot more to do. We must secure justice for thousands of girls and also ensure that this type of industrial-scale cover-up isn’t repeated.
A legal duty on professionals to report sexual abuse is needed to break through the inertia and fear that prevail in many of our organisations. This was one of the key recommendations in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and needs to come into force.
The police have been heavily criticised for their mishandling of the Rochdale cases for more than a decade – most recently in an independent report earlier this year. But have there been any consequences for their neglect? None. More accurate recording of the data is needed to smash the taboos around some incidents of child sexual abuse.
As the independent reports confirm, in Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford, the perpetrators were mainly Pakistani. This truth that dared not speak its name was a reason for the institutional silence and that’s why we need to keep talking about it now. This is not to smear a whole class of people but to be honest about a serious problem in some of our towns and cities.
And we need greater powers to deport foreign-born offenders after conviction. It cannot be right that a foreign criminal who has breached our values and rules in such an egregious way can still enjoy residency in our country.
It will require political courage to confront these problems if we are serious about securing justice for the survivors and protecting children in the future. This Labour Government must put child safety above political correctness, but I’m not so sure they will. I hope they prove me wrong.
Elon Musk is demanding prison time for the large numbers of Rotherham, U.K. police officers, government officials, teachers, social workers, news reporters, and other authority figures who, for many years, knowingly allowed large numbers of Muslim men to rape large numbers of young girls, because they did not want to be accused of “Islamophobia.”
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
January 3, 2025
Elon Musk recently tweeted, “So many people at all levels of power in the UK need to be in prison for this.”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874423327789551778
Musk is referring to the large numbers of Rotherham, U.K. police officers, government officials, teachers, social workers, news reporters, and other authority figures who, for many years, knowingly allowed large numbers of Muslim men to rape large numbers of young girls, because they did not want to be accused of “Islamophobia.”
Here’s a lot more information on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal
https://www.economist.com/britain/2014/08/30/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil
Dungeons and Dragons has gone woke.
Is a Classic Fantasy Game About to be Consigned to the Dungeon of History?
By Jack Watson
January 3, 2025
The latest target of the woke thought inspectors is the iconic and classic fantasy board game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). First created in 1973 by Tactical Studies Rules, D&D pioneered the modern roleplaying game industry and subsequently influenced countless video games. While digital versions are available, this tabletop board game, played by over 50 million fans worldwide, invites players to create characters and embark on collective storytelling adventures filled with danger, treasure and heroism. It has become such a cultural staple it featured in Stranger Things.
However, recent trigger warnings and changes introduced by Wizards of the Coast, owned by Hasbro, have fundamentally altered D&D’s essence in an attempt to promote inclusivity. For example, the term “race” has been replaced with “species” and traits associated with certain fantasy races, like the dexterity of elves, have been removed. These changes aim to make the game more inclusive and avoid associations with real-world discrimination. But this begs the question – how exactly can fictional plastic and imaginary characters like orcs or dwarves feel offended? They can’t.
These updates oversimplify the game, stripping away much of its strategy and challenge. Players can now fully customise their characters, even choosing ability score increases that were once tied to specific species. This detracts from the uniqueness of the characters and removes one of the complexities that made the game so engaging. The idea wasn’t to discriminate between species but to add depth and variation, giving players a more challenging experience.
The game’s new rulebook also includes provisions like allowing players to halt gameplay if they feel uncomfortable with certain content by making an “X” shape with their arms or raising a hand. While the intention may be to encourage new players, the assumption that players need this level of ‘safety’ is patronising. D&D has always welcomed players of all cultures and abilities and both genders – many of whom embraced the game without such protections being in place.
The issue came to a head with the release of the 50th anniversary book, The Making of Original D&D, which criticised the original game’s content for its ‘derogatory language’ and alleged associations with slavery and stereotypes. Instead of recognising this as part of the historical context that shaped the game, these criticisms have spurred unnecessary reforms that detract from D&D’s legacy.
Rather than rewriting history, we should accept that the themes portrayed in the game reflect the time when it was first designed. The refinements are completely unnecessary. Sanitising these elements erases original features and diminishes the game.
Like other woke missteps – such as the infamous Bud Light rebrand – these changes risk alienating loyal fans and diluting what made D&D special. If this continues, a once-beloved classic could find itself abandoned and neglected in the dungeon of irrelevance.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins wants to lock up a violent serial criminal named Robert Sonza, but Judge Bruce E. Chan gave him a plea deal that will allow him to continue committing more crime.
And this is not the first time that I’ve written about this particular serial criminal. See here for my previous blog post about him.
This new video shows the latest update on him. What a scumbag.
And the judge is a scumbag too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5IWt5EFjmo
California Democrats put a rapist named Tremaine Carroll in a woman’s prison. Washington Democrats put a rapist named Christopher Scott Williams in a woman’s prison.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1874883386323714132
https://twitter.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1874883386323714132
In Washington state, Democrats put a rapist named Christopher Scott Williams in a woman’s prison.
Washington inmate accused of molesting cellmate after changing gender, transfer to women’s prison
Former inmate at Washington Corrections Center for Women suing state, prison officials
By Michael Ruiz
December 30, 2024
A recently released Washington state woman says her former cellmate, a biological male who stands six feet, four inches tall and is a “violent, convicted sexual predator,” repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was forced to share a cell with him, according to a new lawsuit.
The 35-year-old Christopher Scott Williams, who has not changed his name but identifies as female, received a transfer to the women’s prison, where the felon allegedly quickly started harassing and threatening a female cellmate, according to a federal lawsuit against the State of Washington, its Department of Corrections and several prison officials.
Referring to the defendant as “Mr. Williams” in a 13-page civil complaint, the plaintiff is accusing prison officials of depriving her of her constitutional rights, cruel and unusual punishment, and failing to acknowledge the risks of putting a “fully intact biological male” with a violent history of sex assault “in a cage” with women.
“Prison officials were well aware that allowing biological males into a female prison creates a substantially increased risk of harm to female prisoners, including intimidation, violence, and sexual assault,” her lawsuit reads.
Williams is currently listed as an inmate at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, where he was locked up alongside the plaintiff, Mozzy Clark.
“My experience at WCCW was a nightmare,” Clark said Monday. “I lived in constant fear, knowing that those who were supposed to protect me not only ignored my pleas for help but enabled my abuser. This cannot continue to happen to others.”
Williams allegedly molested her in her sleep, made explicit comments and threats and exhibited other disturbing behavior, according to the lawsuit.
“Prison officials knowingly placed my client in harm’s way, disregarding her safety and basic human rights,” her attorney David Pivtorak said in a statement. “This lawsuit seeks to hold the Department of Corrections accountable for policies that enabled the victimization of women in their custody.”
In August, she went public with accusations against Williams, telling the National Review that he had often made sexual comments to her, and she would wake up to find him sitting in her bed.
At the time, he was reportedly taken out of the woman’s cell but continued to stalk her around the prison, according to the lawsuit.
Williams’ criminal record includes molesting a family member when they were children, assaulting a male guard when he was still incarcerated in a men’s prison and failing to register as a sex offender, according to the Review.
He was also sentenced to a men’s prison for domestic abuse, the New York Post reported.
A copy of the woman’s Prison Rape Elimination Act report revealed that she once woke up to the sound of a guard banging on her cell in the middle of the night after the officer found Williams sitting in her bed as she slept, according to Reduxx.
In her lawsuit, the former inmate is accusing state officials of depriving her First, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
According to the complaint, she raised concerns to officials who allegedly failed to intervene, even as Williams had faced similar accusations from another woman. They also allegedly threatened Clark by telling her going public with her claims would be considered a “hate crime,” according to her legal team.
“This case is about more than one person’s suffering,” Pivtorak said. “It’s about challenging policies that disregard the safety and dignity of women, and ensuring that institutions are held accountable for their failures.”
Clark is seeking unspecified damages and legal costs.
Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids play “1999” by Prince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88nqjSYs8hA
Huge numbers of viewer comments show that YouTube viewers have overwhelmingly rejected what is being referred to as “Temu Brett Cooper.”
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
January 1, 2025
Over the past few years, conservative commentator Brett Cooper has made a huge number of videos at a YouTube channel which, until very recently, was called “The Comments Section with Brett Cooper.” That YouTube channel is run by the Daily Wire, which is, in turn, run by Ben Shapiro.
Here is one of Cooper’s videos from that channel, so you can see her style of talking in case you’re not familiar with her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8kGWoaroM
Cooper recently left the channel, and has been replaced with what is being referred to as “Temu Brett Cooper.” For those of you who aren’t familiar with Temu, it’s a Chinese online company that sells inferior knockoffs of actual real products. The name of Cooper’s replacement is Reagan Rohrbach. The channel has been renamed to “The Comments Section.”
Here’s a video by Rohrbach, so you can see that her talking style is an obvious imitation of Cooper’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbYt09Jtsvo
Well, based on the viewer comments (and there are a huge number of them), pretty much everyone wants Cooper to return.
Here are some of those viewer comments:
“I would like to hear Brett’s true opinion on all this.”
“The more they try to ignore it, the worse everything will be, I can’t stand to see the comment section up and running anymore. It’s depressing without Brett.”
“So, whose here in the comment section just to read the comments about the comment section?”
“rip comment section we miss you Brett”
“They’re called The Comments Section and is ignoring their comments section”
“The elephant in the room isn’t getting any smaller”
“The only thing dying is The Daily wire views and subscribers. Ironic.”
“Here for the comments section not The Comments Section again”
“Clicked video, immediately clicked pause, goes straight to the comments… was not disappointed LOL”
Meanwhile, Cooper has started her own YouTube channel. And even though it doesn’t actually have any videos, it already has more than half a million subscribers, including myself. Here’s a screenshot of it:
https://www.youtube.com/@bbrettcooper/community
Likewise, many people, including myself, have unsubscribed from the channel that now calls itself “The Comments Section.”
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