Angry white men?



Larry Elder:

After Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty, CNN writer John Blake, wrote an article titled There's nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man. But what John Blake doesn't want to admit is that white men are not the leading this country in crime and homicide. In this episode, Larry Elder provides factual evidence on crime in America and how John Blake's claim is so far from the truth.

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UK: Misogyny should not be made a hate crime, official review finds

An official review has stopped short of calling for misogyny to be made a hate crime, despite mounting calls for change following the murder of Sarah Everard.

The Law Commission said sex or gender should not be made a “protected characteristic” that can be used to record incidents and increase sentences alongside race, religion and other factors.

Following a review commissioned by the government in 2018, the independent body said the move would be “ineffective at protecting women and girls and in some cases, counterproductive”.

A report published on Tuesday found the change could create “hierarchies of victims” and make rape and domestic abuse prosecutions more difficult.

The position is at odds with senior police officers who publicly backed making misogyny a hate crime last month, amid calls to tackle “epidemic” levels of violence against women and girls.

The national police lead for hate crime, Mark Hamilton, said he personally supported adding sex or gender to the current list of protected characteristics.

In November, he told a conference in London it would not cause officers to be “inundated with bureaucracy” and added: “I think it’s a good way of understanding offender behaviour and preventing things escalating from the more minor offences up to sexually-motivated crime and murder.”

At least 11 police forces in the UK are already recording misogyny as a hate crime, based on their own definitions, with Nottinghamshire Police becoming the first in 2016.

The Law Commission instead recommended of extending the offence of stirring up hatred to sex and gender, saying it would help tackle the growing threat of “incel” ideology.

But the report admitted that the offence, currently only covering hatred in respect of race, religion and sexual orientation, is rarely prosecuted and results in under 10 prosecutions a year on average.

The Law Commission called for the government to look at creating a specific offence to tackle public sexual harassment, which it said would “be more effective than adding sex or gender to hate crime laws”.

A group of women’s rights and hate crime organisations, including the Fawcett Society and Citizens UK, said the review had offered no alternatives to “help address widespread concerns about the lack of action by the criminal justice system”.

“The report from the Law Commission will leave many women disappointed and frustrated,” added the statement, which was also signed by Labour MP Stella Creasy and former Nottinghamshire chief constable Sue Fish.

“The Commission’s review is too narrow and doesn’t recognise the value of including misogyny to enable recording of incidents which are currently invisible. By not joining together hate crime legislation it especially ignores the experiences of women from minority communities who experience hatred based on multiple factors yet all too are let down by the criminal justice system because they do not fit their tick boxes.”

The groups said they would “continue to fight” for misogyny to become a hate crime, and push for it to be recorded by all police forces.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/misogyny-hate-crime-law-commission-review-b1970824.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IND_Morning_Headlines%2007-12-2021&utm_term=IND_Headlines_Masterlist_CDP

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New Zealand BANS smoking: Radical new laws will stop young people from EVER buying cigarettes as nation goes 'smoke-free'

New Zealand is banning young people from ever being allowed to buy cigarettes in a rolling program to make the entire country smoke-free by 2025.

No-one under the age of 14 will ever be allowed to buy cigarettes in their lifetime in a desperate bid to eradicate smoking from the country.

Each year an additional age group will be added to the ban list until it's illegal for the entire nation under NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern's radical plan.

'We want to make sure young people never start smoking so we will make it an offence to sell or supply smoked tobacco products to new cohorts of youth,' associate health minister Ayesha Verrall said on Thursday.

'People aged 14 when the law comes into effect will never be able to legally purchase tobacco. 'We are also reducing the appeal, addictiveness and availability of smoked tobacco products.

The minimum age to buy cigarettes in New Zealand remains 18 for the moment.

The government is also restricting the number of shops allowed to sell cigarettes. Just 500 nationwide will be issued with a licence, similar to bottle shop's licence to sell alcohol.

The nicotine strength in cigarettes is also being reduced in a bid to tackle their addictiveness.

Cigarettes prices have gone up 10 per cent every year between 2011 and 2020 but that alone was not stopping smokers.

Eventually - with existing smokers dying - health officials hope to see the entire country smoke-free.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10290201/New-Zealand-BANS-smoking-Young-people-NEVER-buy-cigarettes-nation-goes-smoke-free.html

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Media manipulation on behalf of Biden

In a shocking report, CNN’s media correspondent Oliver Darcy revealed that three Biden administration officials - National Economic Council Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, and Ports Envoy John Porcari – have been ‘briefing major newsrooms over the past week’ in an effort to persuade them to be more positive about the President.

Journalists, including TV news anchors, reporters and producers, were apparently told that contrary to their recent negative coverage, America’s in fantastic shape thanks to a booming economy.

Darcy said the conversations were ‘productive’ which I think can be safely translated to mean the journalists have now seen the light and agreed to rethink their negativity. We’ll see in the coming months.

But the mere fact these conversations have occurred at all is outrageous.

The lobbying followed an op-ed written by Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank headlined: 'The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here's proof.'

Milbank said he had grown so concerned by what he perceived to be unfair bias against Biden that he commissioned Forge.ai, a data analytics unit of the information company FiscalNote, to look at 65 news websites of all political persuasions – many to the hard left, and right - and do a 'sentiment analysis' of 200,000 articles by searching for adjectives.

Milbank said the results established the media was indeed now treating Biden worse than it had Donald Trump and branded them a ‘tremendous indictment of the whole industry.'

He urged US journalists 'to do soul searching and see what we are delivering to people' and concluded: 'My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.’

Unsurprisingly, Milbank’s piece received immediate public approval from Biden’s White House chief of staff Ron Klain who re-tweeted it with the words: ‘Submitted for your consideration’ as if it should win an award.

That enthusiastic endorsement alone should have made Milbank shudder.

What journalist worth a grain of salt wants their own Government to campaign for them to win awards for sucking-up?

But undeterred, Milbank hit the airwaves to double down on his theory and in doing so, revealed the big flaw in his argument.

Appearing on CNN, he admitted that the media had in fact been more favorable to Biden than Trump before August.

Hmmm.

I wonder what it could have been that suddenly turned the media so negative against the President?

Oh wait, I remember.

August was when the cowardly leader of the free world threw millions of Afghanistan women to the Taliban wolves with his shocking sudden withdrawal of US troops, betraying American allies and costing many lives.

Then he authorized a disastrous botched drone strike on a terror suspect in Kabul that killed an innocent family of 10 including women and children.

In September, fresh mayhem erupted on the Southern border due to catastrophic mixed messaging from the Biden administration and Americans watched in horror as US border patrol horsemen charged into Haitian migrants. The President shamefully blamed his guards for the chaos, not himself for causing it.

In October, Biden tried to criminalize American parents who protested against their kids being taught woke agenda subjects like Critical Race Theory by encouraging the National Schools Board Association to disgracefully brand them ‘domestic terrorists.’

Later that month, America ground to a virtual shuddering halt with a vast flotilla of cargo ships stuck off the Californian coast, and a chronic shortage of food-delivery drivers causing empty shelves to appear right across the country.

This was a direct consequence of Biden’s reckless desire to behave like an all-year-round Santa Claus with his massive Covid-19 stimulus spending spree that sparked the inflation that provoked this crisis.

Prices surged, especially at the fuel pump, wages stagnated, and vast swathes of the American workforce quit their jobs because their President made it more economically beneficial for people to stay at home than go to work.

Yet far from the media giving Biden a tougher time than Trump over all this, as Milbank suggests, most of them went out of their way to defend him.

In an astonishingly tone-deaf op-ed piece in the Washington Post (they seem to specialize in them!) columnist Micheline Maynard said everyone should STFU with their whining about food running out, arguing that 'spoilt' and 'nightmare' Americans have grown greedy with expectations of speedy service and easy access to consumer products – expectations that have now been 'crushed like a Styrofoam container in a trash compactor.'

This absurd response was similar to the pathetic free pass that much of the US media has given Biden after all his recent debacles.

And it highlights the problem with Milbank’s theory: it’s all complete hogwash.

You can make A.I. data studies ‘prove’ any theory you like when you base it on selective websites, many of which are at the extremities of news media, and trawl for damning ‘adjectives.’

And acclaimed pollster Nate Silver mocked the survey as ‘complete crap’, pointing out that many of the stories cited either had nothing directly to do with either man or were wrongly categorized because the adjective algorithm is totally misleading.

But I didn’t need him to tell me that.

I’ve been around the journalism block for nearly four decades now and I’ve never seen any US President get a worse or more sustained negative hammering from the media than Donald Trump.

From the day he won back in 2016, to the day he left office four years later, he was subjected to a relentless barrage of toxic one-sided poison from many news organizations that laughably tried to pretend they were impartial.

The way the likes of CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times spent two years screaming 24/7 about ‘Russian Collusion’ – when, as Special Counsel Mueller found, no such collusion had happened - exposed their hyper-partisan bias and their obsession with trying to bring Trump down.

The idea that Joe Biden has been exposed to anything like that level of savage negativity is for the birds.

The truth is that the mainstream media has bent over backwards to help him – by blatantly suppressing damaging stories in the run-up to the election, like his troubled son Hunter’s laptop escapades, and since he won, by virtually ignoring Biden Senior’s increasingly obvious and disconcerting cognitive issues.

So for him to now moan about an unsupportive media and order his goons to ‘have a word’ with the offending journalists, is as ridiculous as it’s disgraceful.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10288391/PIERS-MORGAN-Bidens-attempt-muzzle-media-desperate-move.html

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