The First American Pope Takes on US President Trump with Palki Sharma

Apparently, the new Pope is a lefty and/or is he aping his predecessor Pope Francis? I miss the Polish Pope John Paul II!

Palki Sharma suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Greta Thunberg arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in London

Good news! Maybe this young woman (age 22) needs to cool off a little bit! Perhaps some medical treatment would not hurt either!

Activism for activisms sake! I am not sure this is a helpful therapy!

Someone who supports coward mass killers like Hamas is a serious concern! This is not a case of freedom of speech!

Why are the Western news media exploiting this young woman so often and give her celebrity status!

She suffers from multiple, developmental disorders: "... Eventually, she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism. ..." (Wikipedia)

Caveat: I am not familiar with the circumstances of her arrest.

Greta Thunberg arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in London | Reuters

Credits: Greta Thunberg verhaftet: Unterstützung für Terrororganisation

Linke Omas gegen Rechts. Wirklich!

Mich beeindrucken linke Omas wenig! Wer steck finanziell dahinter?

Mich überzeugen nur Omas, die gegen jeglichen politischen Extremismus protestieren und politisch aktiv sind! 

"Seit sieben Jahren gehen die „Omas gegen Rechts“ gegen die politische Entwicklung des Landes auf die Straße."

Omas gegen Rechts: „Wir wollen die breite Mitte sein“ | FAZ "Seit sieben Jahren gehen die „Omas gegen Rechts“ gegen die politische Entwicklung des Landes auf die Straße. Von der Union wird die Bewegung skeptisch beäugt. Wo will sie hin?"

Omas Gegen Rechts Deutschland e.V. "Wir setzen uns ein für den Abbau von Angst vor allem Fremden. Mit dem Verein wollen wir einen Beitrag zum Schutz der Demokratie leisten, um auf die bedrohliche Zunahme von Faschismus, Rassismus, Antisemitismus und Frauenfeindlichkeit zu reagieren, denn die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar."

Growing Resistance by US researchers against drastic cuts to government research. Really!

Every US administration has the right, if not obligation, to set the priorities for government funded research! Some political activist and ideologically motivated scientists may not like some of the new priorities!

"Scientists in the U.S. are increasingly pushing back against drastic cuts to government research, using a range of tactics: 

 

Legal action: Growing numbers of researchers are joining class action lawsuits to reinstate grants and preserve funding for institutions like the NIH.  

 

Tracking grants: Activists are cataloging cuts through public databases like Grant Witness, tracking hundreds of terminated grants, revealing disproportionate cuts to research supporting certain minority groups [??? DEI, LGBTQ ideology].  

 

Whistle-blowing: Government scientists are informing lawmakers and journalists about internal policy violations. [Like the latest, fired CDC Director]

 

Public outreach: Outward-facing projects like Science Homecoming and Your Neighborhood Scientist aim to rebuild public trust by connecting scientists and their work with their local communities."

Global Health NOW: UN Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza; Researchers’ Growing Resistance; and Gaming Addiction Treatment in Australia

Kristi Noem speaks out after US Senator from California (D) interrupted event: 'POLITICAL THEATER'

Very recommendable! What a planned publicity stunt by this fool! Kristi Noem for president in 2028?

She also explained how this self deportation is supposed to work, e.g. an illegal immigrant who works as a farm worker in California can self deport, collect $1000 and receive a plane ticket, then he can use a federal government app to apply for a visa to reenter the US.

Is this US. Senator from California (a Dimocrat) Alejandro Padilla a clone of the awful Adam Schiff (the other US Senator from California (D))?

The Anti-‘Woke’ Activist Starbuck Targeting America’s Biggest Companies

Recommendable! DEI must die!

Calls to shut down South Africa’s captive lion industry. Really!

What is wrong with it? It just may save some wild lions and other large cats living in their natural habitat.

Seems to be another case of dubious activism dressed up as science! They claim it is about some illegal activities, but they actually want to shut down the entire industry! Nice trick!

"It’s estimated that between 8,000–12,000 lions and other big cats, including tigers, are bred and kept in captivity in more than 350 private, commercial facilities across South Africa. ..."

From the abstract:

"The African lion Panthera leo is subject to numerous anthropogenic pressures across its natural range. In South Africa, although free ranging populations are increasing, the number of lions in captivity in private commercial facilities far outnumber those in the wild. South Africa’s captive lion industry was reportedly created primarily to generate income and take pressure off wild populations through the supply of captive-bred lions for trophy hunting. However, the industry has become a highly contentious topic under ongoing international scrutiny and debate. Here, we present new information from direct interviews with workers at two closed-access lion facilities located in North West Province, on how some facilities continue to use legal activities, such as captive breeding and hunting, to facilitate their involvement in the illegal international felid bone trade. The sources also report other illegal and unethical activities including animal welfare violations, unsafe conditions for workers, potential shifts to the commercial exploitation of other felid species such as tigers Panthera tigris and incidents involving poaching of captive lions and tigers by non-affiliated actors. Sources described how some facilities use various tools and tactics, such as security cameras, patrols and messaging apps to avoid detection during inspections. If the South African Government is to be successful in meeting its publicly stated goal of ending the captive lion industry, a comprehensive well-managed plan to transition away from current practices is required. To aid enforcement, the industry should also be fully audited, with all facilities officially registered, a moratorium on the breeding of lions and plans put in place to prevent the stockpiling of lion bones."

Calls to shut down South Africa’s captive lion industry

Under the lion’s paw: lion farming in South Africa and the illegal international bone trade

Figure 1.

Map of the study area in North West Province, South Africa.

UK: Julian Assange dangerously close to extradition following High Court rejection of appeal. Really!

The strange and celebrated media darling Julian Assange (born 1971) is in the news again! I meant to blog about this phony celebrity for some time, but apparently never got around it.

Looking at his biography, any person with some common sense should hesitate to praise this man as a hero of some sort:

1. "He became involved in the hacker community and was convicted for hacking in 1996.". He was already 26 years old at the time.
2. "In November 2010, Sweden issued a European arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual assault ... After losing his battle against extradition to Sweden, he breached bail and took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012."
3. "On 11 April 2019, Assange's asylum was withdrawn following a series of disputes with Ecuadorian authorities. The [British] police were invited into the embassy and he was arrested. He was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison."
4. The Manning WikiLeaks in 2010: Dumping indiscriminately hundreds of thousands of partially classified U.S. military documents was a reckless and irresponsible action. Possibly countless individuals were put at risk by this action! Bradley Edward Manning a.k.a. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (the leaker) is another topic of its own. Assange probably exercised poor judgement!
5. The massive release of unredacted U.S. cables in 2011 was another irresponsible job and very amateurish!

Side note: Assange got married again in 2022. His second wife Stella Assange "a lawyer and human rights defender." A marriage of convenience? 😊

UK: Julian Assange dangerously close to extradition following High Court rejection of appeal | RSF: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s decision rejecting WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s appeal against his extradition order, bringing him dangerously close to being extradited to the United States, where he could face the rest of his life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in 2010.

Google fires activist Rebecca Rivers and 3 others

Good news! Bravo Google! So this so called activist may have used company resources to organize this (extreme leftist) political protest among colleagues perhaps during her work time?

"Rivers, a software engineer who worked at Google offices in Boulder, Colorado, created and circulated a petition among Google employees calling for the company to stay away from contracts with federal agencies putting kids in cages like Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)" 
Kids in cages is a far leftist propaganda to stir up emotions!

"... but one employee was placed on leave for allegedly accessing and sharing need-to-know documents, and another placed on administrative leave for viewing and tracking calendars of members of Community Platforms, HR, and Comms teams" 
You wonder at what people this was aimed at? Conservatives?

Google fires activist Rebecca Rivers and 3 others | VentureBeat: Google terminated 4 employees today including Rebecca Rivers, who opposed Google taking contracts from federal agencies that detain migrant children.