Iso-Britanniassa tapahtuvat jengiraiskaukset ovatkin "useamman tekijän raiskauksia" - no eivät ne siitä vähene

Politically correct Scotland Yard chiefs have stopped using the term 'gang rape' because it is too 'emotive', the Mail can reveal.

Instead officers have been advised to use the long-winded phrase 'multi-perpetrator rape' when describing sex attacks involving three or more culprits.

Critics branded the move by the Metropolitan Police an 'affront' to the victims of appalling sex crimes and are preparing to launch a campaign on the issue.

Six years ago the Met was at the centre of a similar row over its choice of language to describe 'gang rapes' after a senior officer referred to them as 'group rapes' during an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Some community activists had previously suggested the phrase 'gang rape' had racist connotations.

Details of the latest police terminology are contained in an official Scotland Yard report which reveals a sharp increase in the number of gang rapes in the capital.

New figures revealed there were 93 gang sex attacks in the financial year 2008-9, compared with 71 in 2003-2004.

Meanwhile the age of victims has fallen with 64% aged 19 or younger in the last financial year compared with 48% in 1998-9.

(Mail Online, 9.11.2009)

Tieto, tiedonvälitys, tiede, valta, valheet ja politiikka "tietoyhteiskunnassa"

Hakkerit ovat tunkeutuneet maailman johtavan ilmastotutkimuslaitoksen työntekijöiden sähköposteihin.

Iso-Britanniassa sijaitsevan East Anglian yliopiston ilmastontutkimusyksikön (CRU) tutkijoiden henkilökohtaiset sähköpostit ilmestyivät internetiin eilen. Tänään yliopiston edustaja vahvisti, että tiedot hakkeroinnista pitävät paikkansa.

- Materiaalin runsaan määrän vuoksi emme voi kuitenkaan sanoa varmasti, onko kaikki internetissä oleva materiaali aitoa, edustaja korosti.

Tapauksen poliisitutkinta on kesken, kertoo Britannian yleisradioyhtiö BBC verkkosivuillaan.

CRU on yksi maailman johtavista ilmastonmuutoksen tutkimuslaitoksista. Sen erityisalaa on ihmisen vaikutus ilmaston lämpenemiseen, ja sillä on ollut suuri rooli esimerkiksi kansainvälisen ilmastopaneelin (IPCC) raporteissa.

Asiantuntijoiden mukaan joulukuinen Kööpenhaminan ilmastokokous lisää myös hakkereiden kiinnostusta ilmastoasioihin. Myös CRU:n asiantuntijarooli kasvaa kokouksen lähestyessä.

Internetin keskusteluryhmissä sähköposteja on puitu kiivaasti. Monessa keskustelussa väitetään, että sähköposteissa tutkijat pohtivat avoimesti moraalisia ja juridisia ongelmia, joita syntyy heidän tieteellisten havaintojen muokkaamisesta sopivammaksi nykyiseen poliittiseen ilmapiiriin. Tämä tarkoittaa siis uhkakuvien korostamista.

(MTV3.fi, 20.11.2009)

"Cool Britannia" ei edusta "paluuta" barbarismiin, koska näin barbaarista Britanniassa ei ole ollut koskaan

Teenage girls wanting to join violent male gangs are being forced into having sex and ferrying guns, knives and drugs, police and charities have found.

The girls, some as young as 13, want to join gangs to raise their own profile or to seek protection. Often they are swayed by the status given to the senior members of the gang.

When they first join they are told they must have sex with one member of the gang — and then find several of the gang waiting for them.

What has shocked welfare workers is that the girls accept the situation as normal and do not appreciate that they are being violated.

The girls are also being asked to store and transport guns, knives and drugs for the male members of the gang and police have evidence that girls are taking guns direct to killers and then disposing of the weapons once someone has been shot.

The problem has been growing over the past couple of years, with charities getting ever more girls coming to them with tales of gang rapes, and yet reluctant to press charges.

Teresa Pointing, chief executive of In-volve, a charity helping young people drawn into violent situations, said: “These girls have no rights within these gangs, which are primitive in the way they operate.”

“The girls think they are going to be protected by the gang if they have sex with one person but then they find there are more boys there.”

(The Times, 26.10.2009)

Tämän Englanninko vuoksi "tommyt" kuolivat Flanderin mutaan ja Normandian hiekalle?

Maybe she thinks it's the drink that is preventing her from putting one foot in front of the other.

Or perhaps she knows the vulgar truth and is merely trying to impress her friends. Either way, the sight is certainly not an edifying one.

This shrieking ladette was photographed staggering through Cardiff city centre late on Friday night.

Such scenes are not uncommon, which is why Cardiff - one of the country's worst cities for binge drinking - has just banned boozing on the streets.

The crackdown is aimed at late night revellers, targeting rowdy hen and stag parties and generally trying to make the streets safer after dark.

Police can use the new powers to confiscate alcohol or arrest anyone who defies them.

The ban has been a success in trials in small areas but will spread across the entire city in time for Christmas and the New Year.

Yesterday it was hailed as a big step towards 'reclaiming the streets' from drunken yobs.

Cardiff Central MP Jenny Willott said: 'Late night alcohol-fuelled crime and anti-social behaviour is a huge problem on the streets.

'People deserve to have a night out without the fear of intimidation or facing violence as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.

'This ban should help the law-abiding and responsible majority to reclaim the streets.'

The Designated Public Place Order - a power introduced by the Home Office - does not make drinking in public illegal.

But police can order people to stop drinking on the streets and can confiscate their alcohol. Anyone failing to comply will be arrested.

It is believed to be the first time the orders has been brought in to cover an entire city.

The measures follow the revelation that drink was responsible for more than half the violent assaults in the city centre in the past 12 months.

Cardiff Council deputy leader Judith Woodman said: 'It gives police the right to confiscate alcohol where people are behaving in a rowdy and disorderly way and causing problems to residents and those around them.'

The move could now be followed by other cities.

It comes as experts warned that British schoolgirls are the worst for binge drinking in Europe. The problem is likely to become worse as it becomes more socially acceptable, a conference heard.

Some 648 children under ten were admitted to hospital due to drink between 2003 and 2008.

Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: 'We are more than double our nearest rivals when it comes to women binge drinking. We stand out like sore thumbs.'

He added that many career women were drinking to 'hold their own' with male colleagues at after-work drinking sessions.

Binge drinking among young women hit the headlines again last week when university students across the country took part in organised marathon pub crawls.

Many familiar scenes of debauchery were seen, including half-naked women collapsing on the street.

(Daily Mail, 23.10.2009)

Professori Vihavainen ja Iltalehti osaavat asioiden tiivistämisen taidon

Helsingin yliopiston Venäjän tutkimuksen professori Timo Vihavainen käynnisti julkisuudessa kiivaan keskustelun uutuuskirjallaan Länsimaiden tuho. Koko länsimainen kulttuuri on Vihavaisen mielestä tekemässä itsemurhaa sallimalla lisääntyvän maahanmuuton ja islamin leviämisen rajojensa sisäpuolelle. Professorin mukaan oma kulttuurimme on ajautumassa perikatoon ihaillessamme maahanmuuttajien kulttuuria samalla, kun meidän oma elämämme on rappeutunut pelkäksi nautinnon etsinnäksi ja kuluttamiseksi.

(Iltalehti, 17.10.2009)

Joskus muutama sana riittää sanomaan kaiken

This American fantasizes about fighting for his freedom from Islamo-commies. Meanwhile, Wall Street plutocrats rob his house every single night, and he doesn’t do a damn thing about it.

(Mark Ames, "Is America The Last Sucker-Nation On Earth? While Her Majesty Bans Brit Banker Bonuses, American Bankers Gamble The Middle Class Into Extinction", The eXiled Online, 28.9.2009)

Massasta erottautujan dilemma: mistä löytää syrjitty seksuaalinen vähemmistö johon kuulua?

In an Internet age, zoophiles are more exposed than ever. Bestiality-themed websites are a Google search away. Hometown newspapers have learned that police reports of sex with animals become the best-read stories on their websites.

State lawmakers across the country have taken their cues by proposing anti-bestiality laws. In Florida, state Sen. Nan Rich of Sunrise proposed legislation earlier this year that would make bestiality a felony. Her bill was in response to news reports from January 2007, when a man from Mossy Point was suspected of sexually assaulting and strangling a female goat; he was arrested months later in the abduction of another goat. Rich's bill unanimously passed in the Florida Senate but died in the House, where conservative legislators might have been bashful about devoting time to a bill about sex with animals.

A similar bill was proposed this year in the Alaska Legislature, where it was known derisively as "The Ididadog." That bill failed for similar reasons — certainly not because of organized opposition. In Arizona, police arrested a Mesa deputy fire chief in 2006 for sex acts with his neighbor's lamb, which spurred state legislators to make such acts a felony. That same year, Washington state finally made bestiality illegal, inspired by a man in Enumclaw who was killed while having sex with a horse — a case that also prompted a bill last year by a Tennessee legislator. The past few weeks have brought perhaps the most famous animal sex case — a South Carolina man charged for the second time with committing buggery against the same horse.

Of course, the Internet has a way of turning exposure to strength. It has allowed zoophiles from around the world to interact — not only to swap erotica but also to form a community and rehearse their arguments for the political stage. The Internet also makes zoophiles accessible for the first time. They can be found in chatrooms, through websites that advocate their cause, and virtual-reality meetups.

As this group gains confidence, zoophiles figure to be more open and then more outspoken in their demands for personal liberty and against discrimination. Improbable as it may seem, zoophiles might yet prove the new frontier in the battle for sexual civil rights.

(Miami News, 18.8.2009)

Infantilismia Boston Collegessa

The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that faculty are revising the titles of their courses to draw more students. The leading example was a German course at Boston College previously known as “German Literature of the High Middle Ages.” The professor changed the title to “Knights, Castles, and Dragons” and tripled the number of students who signed up.

The story is amusing and illustrates the universal tendency to respond to marketing. But it also reminds us that students these days are pretty much in charge of their “education.” Letting freshmen choose all their general-education courses is parallel to letting four-year-olds decide if they want candy or green beans. The result is college graduates who are woefully under-nourished in educational terms.

The total abandonment of the idea that faculty (and administration) might know more than students about what they should study is the result of a long evolution. For more about this history, read Russell Nieli’s essay on the transformation of higher education in America, "From Christian Gentleman to Bewildered Seeker."

(Jane S. Shaw, "Kids in Charge, National Review Online, 8.9.2009)

USA:n Kabulin suurlähetystön vartijoiden hilpeä dekadenssi

Private security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul were pressured to participate in naked pool parties and perform sex acts to gain promotions or assignment to preferable shifts, according to one of 12 guards who have gone public with their complaints.

In an interview with ABC News for broadcast tonight on the "World News with Charles Gibson," the guard, a U.S. military veteran, said top supervisors of the ArmorGroup were not only aware of the "deviant sexual acts" but helped to organize them.

"It was mostly the young guys fresh from the military who were told they had to participate," said the guard, who talked on a phone hook-up arranged by the Project on Government Oversight, which first revealed photographs of the parties.

"They were not gay but they knew what it took to get promoted," said the guard, spoke on condition that ABC News not publish his name.

The State Department said it was investigating the allegations and the circumstances surrounding the photographs which show naked and barely clothed men fondling one another. The guard who spoke with ABC News said the drunken parties had been held regularly for at least a year and a half.

(ABC News, 2.9.2009)

Iso-Britannia: intellektuellien unelma, raakalaisten ja pahoinvoinnin maa

There is an old saying that the civilisation of any country can best be judged by its treatment of women and children.

By that standard the British are losing their civilised values. Last week the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a comparative study of the welfare of children in 30 industrialised nations.

In Britain we spend more than most other countries on the welfare of children, but achieve poorer results. In terms of socially 'risky' behaviour, including smoking, drinking and teenage pregnancy, Britain's performance is worse than any of the countries, apart from Turkey and Mexico.

The OECD's findings follow a report two years ago by Unicef that put Britain at the bottom of 21 nations in terms of family breakdown, drink, drugs, teenage sex and fear of violence.

These statistical comparisons are confirmed by particular reports of serious neglect of children, of attacks by children on each other, and of the abuse of children. Last week's reports of the torture inflicted by two brothers on a nine- and 11-year-old in Edlington, South Yorkshire, were a particularly horrifying example.

This is not simply a question of money. Britain spends an average of £90,000 of public money per childhood. That is higher than the average expenditure in the other countries.

There are, however, important links to the rising level of unemployment. Due to the current recession, it is difficult for young people to get their first permanent jobs or to buy their first homes. One in ten in the 15-19 age group is not in school, training or work. Social mobility has stalled. It is hard for young people to improve on the financial position of their parents - or even to reach that level.

Britain used to take pride in being one of the best countries in the world in which to bring up children. They were relatively safe, well educated - at least those of the able and the rich were - and disciplined.

Intellectuals reacted strongly against the hierarchical British culture of the early 20th Century, but it seemed to produce a large number of hardworking and well-balanced adults. Before and after the Second World War, Britain would have expected to be in the top quarter of any table on the welfare of children.

The individual characters have not greatly changed but the culture has.

(William Rees-Mogg, "This is the age of billionaires - and feral children", Mail Online, 7.9.2009)

Brittilapsia tahdotaan opettaa masturboimaan mutta ei käyttämään veistä ja haarukkaa

This week we learned that growing numbers of children arrive at school unable to hold a knife and fork.

I wonder what else they cannot do. I suspect that, if anyone measured it, we would also find that a lot of them can’t listen or speak as they should be able to because they have spent so much time in front of glowing screens that mesmerise them, but don’t respond to them or care about them.

If we looked further, we would discover that many of them have no manners to speak of, do not understand different tones of voice, have trouble obeying instructions or settling to any serious task.

As they grow older, large numbers of these children, especially the boys, will be drugged with powerful stimulants because it is claimed they are suffering from syndromes or disorders – fancy words for subjective and unproven diagnoses, used by doctors and others who ought to know better.

Later still they will form a solid, unteachable, disorderly mass at the back of scores of secondary-school classrooms, texting (if they can read enough) during lessons, or simply ignoring or insulting their teachers, uninterested in learning and unable to do so, and preventing others from learning, too.

Then, released on to the streets, they will frighten us all with their blank, pitiless faces and their inability to understand things we take for granted. Consideration for others? What’s that? Restraint? Never heard of it. Manners? What are they? Patience? Who needs it? All classes are affected.

But we were not born with these blessings. We learned them in thousands of tiny steps, from parents who were present in our lives from our earliest moments, not for a brief few months before everyone had to go back to the grindstone.

Our schools are terrible, and have been for years – so terrible that even the authorities are beginning to admit it.

But the teachers are right when they say that the real problem is in the home. And the problem of the home is actually the problem of an unhinged society that decided to try to change human nature.

Women, it said, had to work outside the home to be fulfilled. Raising children was something that would just get done in the intervals between work and sleep.

This idea came from a wild, Leftist coven whose members long ago grew up and got rich. But it just happened to suit a lot of businesses which find women cheaper and more reliable than men, and so it took off. And it has done limitless damage.

And it is time that it was reversed. And nobody will do anything. But comfort yourselves. Children may not know how to handle cutlery, but if UNESCO has its way they will soon be instructed, from the age of five, in the joys of masturbation.

Thus do we make progress.

(Peter Hitchens, "Our children can't hold a knife and fork, so what does UNESCO teach them?", Mail Online, 13.9.2009)