Author: Black Mamba
Michael Yon on the US migration crisis: people coming from various places, these ones in the Panama area
After covering wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Michael Yon is now covering migration to the US border across a variety of treacherous terrain. He joins me from Panama where he has been tracking movement through the Darien Gap, a portion of the wild jungle in which he says roughly 10% of those crossing die before reaching the other side.
Covid professor claims social distancing should remain ‘forever’
David Nabarro, a special envoy from the WHO, said that vaccines won't be enough to end the pandemic, and that we'll need to adapt our lifestyles too.
Professor @SusanMichie, a behavioural scientist advising the government, and epidemiologist Dr @shikta_das join @ClaudiaLizaTV. pic.twitter.com/NzSjnbSgve
— Channel 5 News (@5_News) June 9, 2021
Professor Michie, whose first husband was Andrew Murray, once a key adviser to Jeremy Corbyn, has been a common sight on TV during the crisis.
She is also a member of The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), a body which advises the British government. She is of course a psychologist.
Good grief
Toronto Star blazing a trail in responsible reporting:https://t.co/DDa7ZshlNg
— Darshan Maharaja (@TheophanesRex) May 28, 2021
Ted Cruz says something obviously true, woke twitter loses it
Read the responses.
Holy crap.
Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea…. https://t.co/8aVFMW98NM
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 20, 2021
The New York Times: “… As a white woman, I know I have unearned privilege, so am I the best person to be in leadership?”
When Sarah Hamilton was in high school, Hillary Clinton was running for president, and it made a big impression. Her candidacy made Ms. Hamilton want to become a leader someday too, she said, and maybe even run for office.
Four years later, Ms. Hamilton, 21, is no longer interested in leadership. Even though it felt exciting to see Kamala Harris become vice president, she said, the sexism she thought that Ms. Harris and the other female candidates faced was too much. Ms. Hamilton, a graphic designer in San Francisco, would rather help people in a more personal way, like mentoring.
“Before Donald Trump won, I had in my head being a woman doesn’t really matter,” she said. “I think it’s really damaging. All of those women have shown you can rise above that stuff, and you can be in those positions and succeed. But I think for a lot of little girls and people like me, they see that and think, ‘If that’s what it takes to achieve that position, I don’t think it’s worth it.’”
Sweden sure looks nice
Six women have been killed in just five weeks in Sweden, reigniting debates about domestic violence in a country usually praised for its gender equality.
…In Flemingsberg, a low-income Stockholm suburb packed with tower blocks clad in primary colours, a woman was stabbed in the apartment she shared with four young children. The man arrested on suspicion of her murder is someone she reportedly knew well.
…One major political sticking point is whether the recent violence should be connected to Sweden’s recent wave of immigration. Swedish police don’t register criminal suspects according to ethnicity, but prosecutors say several of the men facing trial have non-Swedish backgrounds, and that’s been used as ammunition by anti-immigration parties.
In a televised party leader debate last week, the leader of the nationalist Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson called for a crackdown on what he described as “imported values” that sanction violence against women.
Sweden’s Gender Equality Minister Märta Stenevi says that Sweden does have a problem with so-called “honour crimes”, which are committed to protect or defend the supposed reputation of a family or extended community. But she believes labelling violence towards women as an “immigrant issue” is “really, really diminishing the problem”, describing violence against women as “deeply, deeply rooted” throughout Swedish society.
….Opinions are strongly divided in Flemingsberg, where Swedish pine forests intersect with a heaving, concrete, shopping precinct.
“People who live here, they don’t want to accept like Swedish laws,” says one 25-year-old woman who asks not to be named. (Emphases mine – Ed.)
