Woke Prince Charles vetted laws that stop his tenants buying their homes

The royal family has used a secretive procedure to vet three parliamentary acts that have prevented residents on Prince Charles’ estate from buying their own homes for decades, the Guardian can reveal.

His £1bn Duchy of Cornwall estate was later given special exemptions in the acts that denied residents the legal right to buy their own homes outright.

Under the opaque procedure, the Queen and Prince of Wales were allowed to vet the contents of the bills by government ministers and approve them before they were passed by parliament.

The exemptions have left residents living in homes that have diminishing or no financial value. The residents say they cannot borrow against their homes to pay, for example, for social care fees for themselves and loved ones.

There had better be another side to this story other than “It’s good to be King.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Breastfeeding is now chestfeeding, Brighton’s trans-friendly midwives are told

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is the first in the country to formally implement a gender inclusive language policy for its maternity services department, which will now be known as “perinatal services”.

Staff have been instructed that “breastmilk” should be replaced with the phrases “human milk”, “breast/chestmilk” or “milk from the feeding mother or parent”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?

William Watson: Maoism’s disasters show why Canada should ignore even kindly economic planners

William Watson: Maoism’s disasters show why Canada should ignore even kindly economic planners

Martin Ravallion of Georgetown University, who used to be director of research at the World Bank, has an interesting new working paper out that tries to estimate how much Mao Zedong and Maoism cost China in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction.

How China would have done without Maoism depends on what would have replaced it. Ravallion suggests that could have been “political capitalism” à la Taiwan and South Korea, two societies not dissimilar to China’s, with their “Confucian philosophical roots,” strong work ethics, reverence for learning, central importance of family, and so on. In 1950, after decades of regional and world conflict, all three countries were very poor, China poorest. But then the other two took off and China didn’t.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

John McWhorter: The Neoracists

A new religion is preached across America. It’s nonsense posing as wisdom.

One can divide antiracism into three waves. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and 1980s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist was a flaw. Third Wave Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that racism is baked into the structure of society, so whites’ “complicity” in living within it constitutes racism itself, while for black people, grappling with the racism surrounding them is the totality of experience and must condition exquisite sensitivity toward them, including a suspension of standards of achievement and conduct.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Is Palestine a State?

The highly politicized International Criminal Court just declared statehood for Palestinians. They did it without any negotiation with Israel, without any compromise, and without any recognized boundaries. They also did it without any legal authority, because the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court, makes no provision for this criminal court to recognize new states. Moreover, neither Israel nor the United States ratified that treaty, so the decisions of the International Criminal Court are not binding on them. Nor is this divided decision binding on signatories, since it exceeds the authority of the so-called court.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, Palestine and Palestinians

UK TV presenter receives threats after saying she is not a practising Muslim

TV presenter Saira Khan has said she received death threats after revealing she is not a practising Muslim.

The former Loose Women panellist clarified her faith earlier this week in a column for The Daily Mirror.

“The problem for women like me, who have a Muslim name and are of Asian heritage, is that others make assumptions about us before we even open our mouths,” she said.

In an Instagram Live on Monday, Khan said she had received death threats.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Religion Of Peace"

Easy money: buying and selling fake Covid test results

Coronavirus has changed the way we travel and many countries now demand proof of a negative Covid test before letting you in – with tests often costing hundreds of pounds. BBC reporter Joice Etutu has been speaking to two women who admit using and selling fake certificates.

“I was kind of nervous because I didn’t know what to expect.

“When I got to the counter where they check in your passport before you board the plane, the man asked me for my [Covid-19 test certificate]

“He literally read through it for no more than 10 to 20 seconds, and then he smiled and asked me where I was going and said, ‘have a safe flight.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Anti-Zionist Left Rallies to Defense of Controversial Biden State Dept Pick

Some of the country’s most prominent, self-described “anti-Zionists” are rushing to defend the Biden administration’s possible selection of a top Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) aide to serve at the State Department.

Following a Washington Free Beacon report last week on Matt Duss’s anti-Israel history, anti-Zionists including Peter Beinart, the Jewish writer beloved by anti-Israel activists, are coming to his defense. Beinart wrote in a self-published piece on Monday that Duss is being unfairly maligned by the pro-Israel community and Republican leaders because he is a Christian who cares “about the powerless and the abused, whatever their race, religion, or nationality.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy "Anti-Zionists", Israeli - Islam Conflict

EU plan to copy Australia and make big tech companies such as Google and Facebook pay for news

EU plan to copy Australia and make big tech companies such as Google and Facebook pay for news

The EU is looking into plans to make big tech companies such as Google and Facebook pay for news in a push similar to reforms in Australia.

MEPs are working on two draft European digital regulations that could be amended to include proposals akin to those in Australia, the Financial Times reported.

The plans could require big tech companies to pay for news content as well as inform publishers about changes to how they rank news stories on their sites.

I am very curious to see how all this ends.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly"

‘We’re double-dipping’: Trudeau pressured to speed vaccine distribution amid Covax backlash

‘We’re double-dipping’: Trudeau pressured to speed vaccine distribution amid Covax backlash

Justin Trudeau is facing growing pressure to speed up Canada’s sluggish distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, as the country fends off accusations that it is taking supplies of the drug meant for developing countries.

The federal government drew sharp criticism last week when it announced that it would draw on Covax, a mechanism created to fairly distribute Covid-19 around the world, for its supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Canada is entitled to receive shots through the Covax program, which uses advance purchases by wealthy nations to subsidise doses for poorer countries. But it had already completed a series of direct deals with pharmaceutical companies to secure its own supply, prompting accusations of “double-dipping”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government