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Here’s another one.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/06/belgian-transgender-deputy-pm-petra-de-sutter-rishi-sunak-not-join-real-bullies

Also, yesterday:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/05/record-rise-hate-crimes-transgender-people-reported-england-and-wales

The Home Office assessment agrees with what neuroscientist Kathleen Taylor wrote in her book “Cruelty”, namely that even the mildest verbal otherization primes people for aggression.

I made a related video a few years ago. (A few hours later: Except, it appears that there is hackers messing with URLs again so maybe you’re not getting to see that particular video, below. It’s happened before. I’m currently getting some weird messages that I am choosing to ignore and my screen split up all of a sudden.)

This is a case I looked into a few years ago. I read the report and exchanged one or two tweets with her mother. I don’t know why but her case got to me more than others.

Now there is a documentary. The police response at the time was even more lackadaisical than was already known. (I’m still in the middle of watching the documentary at the moment.)

What I remember is that the police didn’t have the IT expertise at hand that would have determined that the other messages were coming from him too.

Her case particularly also is why I feel strongly that cases of stalking and harassment should be dealt with very differently.

(That reminds me. Does anyone know how that big legal action against the police in England is going? It made the news when it was filed but I haven’t seen any more news about it since. I know that a lawsuit can easily take one or more years.)

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Lauren’s calls to the police, to me, sound like she was very concerned (afraid), but doing her best to stay above it.

Please note that the date on this post is incorrect. I don’t know why there is an incorrect date on this post.

Watch the damn videos. Both of them.

This is classic sadistic stalking, also known as resentful stalking. It’s intended to make someone’s life a living hell. To control someone else.

It can manifest in various forms.

Be warned. This is not a funny video to watch. Someone died.

The victim in this video relocated several times to try to escape the stalking. In the end, she went to the police. Thankfully, they believed her and set up a trap. When they caught the stalker, the police discovered several other victims, including a colleague of the victim who reported the stalking to the police.

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I am sure that I am not the only one who sometimes gets really disheartened when efforts and accomplishments clash with the callousness and destructiveness of cold old-fashioned capitalism. If you are feeling at a loss as to how to proceed and feel ready to pack it in, then you may find this Plum Village presentation really helpful.

She’s a former BBC journalist who worked on the politics newsdesk.

Also had convictions for animal abuse. Also possibly had Asperger’s? Problems with alcohol. Depression.

Someone who needed to receive medical care rather than to provide it.

Source: NOS

https://nos.nl/artikel/2492220-om-waarschuwde-erasmus-mc-voor-psychotisch-gedrag-en-veroordelingen-l

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(The future of bioethics: Challenges, Visions and Opportunities)

Also, new president of the Hastings Center.

I love her vision! I so agree!!! Very challenging, sure. “Aspirational and inspirational” as she put it.

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I e-mailed her and wrote the following:

Thank you. I am going to mull this over and let it inspire me.

I am a member of the public, have a background in earth and life sciences. I ran into the very first edition of Glenn Cohen’s EDX course and that’s what got me into bioethics.

I love the way – aspirational and inspirational, indeed – you are tackling – or should I say “approaching” – the field. It’s very challenging to take all views and angles into account – but we should, no matter how difficult this is – and I really love the way you fully embrace that. I also think that bioethics cannot keep being mainly restricted to the US and that it needs to go global, even though that is going to be so so challenging.

Having lived in England with its persistent class ideas, maybe I can contribute that housing and homelessness are part of the poverty topic, which is an inequity topic and the result of government policies and decisions. I agree with Philip Alston on that (NYU). 40% of Brits are currently in poverty.

Also, if you haven’t heard of them yet, then the IAPG – international association for the promotion of geoethics – might be useful to know about – connections to mining industry – and, with regard to the havoc that biased algorithms can cause, that’s not restricted to health, but also to tax-related decision-making, which also can have health impacts. In a pretty shocking Dutch childcare tax credit scandal, children were sometimes removed from parents, but I am sure you’ve heard of it.

Enjoy your weekend.

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Also, when I wrote my book about “the new eugenics”, I looked for people to send it to and did my best to find scholars in Arabic and African countries too. I really was interested in how Islamic scholars and cultures see these issues.

Speaking of which: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/islam-and-bioethics-what-we-all-need-to-know-registration-713788158597

See also https://sps.columbia.edu/academics/masters/bioethics/events

Shouting match outside, Portsmouth-style. (Well, somewhat.)

I go onto my balcony, wish the guy a good evening, assuming that he just was the target of racism. There’s a little bit of that here locally, I’ve noticed. It’s horrible. Awful, just awful. People whose skin isn’t white and/or who speak a different language.

He shouts back, too angry to listen in detail to what I am saying. Oh, I know what that is like. After years of being showered with blind hate and contempt, you can end up very angry indeed. I know how it goes.

(He wanted to be heard. He was NOT in a mood to listen to me.)

He was merely angry. Controlled. But hurt.

Been there so many times myself in the English enclave of Hatesville. The hate knows no bounds and nobody wants to listen to you, about what is being done to you. I know what that is like. Boy, do I know what that is like.

Next, young women tell me to keep my mouth shut because there are people living here. What am I? A tomato?

Shortly after that, three low-flying helicopters pass, some kind of VIP. (They flew NW-SE. Heading 130, maybe.) I’ve seen something similar when Trump arrived in Portsmouth.

Some young woman under my window starts shouting that these are our liberators, that they’ve been preparing for 80 years. Or was it 60?

I’m so through with the human species.

I hope that the guy got rid of his anger by shouting at me. You can’t keep bottling it up but nobody wants to know about it, so you have no choice but to bottle it up. Every once in a while, it comes out, whether it’s convenient or not. Usually it’s not at all.

Fuck you, Portsmouth with all your hate, your relentless hate. Fuck. You.

That guy’s anger resonated with me.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/20/revealed-almost-everyone-in-europe-breathing-toxic-air

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230912-how-i-hacked-my-brain

https://caring-mindfulness.thinkific.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/19/protester-who-held-sign-outside-london-climate-trial-prosecuted

For people like me, this means that we can now find ourselves deported as a result of having held up a sign to do with climate change. For example because it inconveniences someone who may now have to walk or drive around you.

Want a comparison of the legal reasoning in this case?

In a trial prosecuting someone who went berserk because he found his wife cheating on him, the latter cannot be mentioned while addressing the jury.

Another example could be that if you chased a burglar with a frying pan and the burglar ended up with a broken wrist and ripped clothes when he climbed your fence to get away, he can now force you to say nothing about the burglar part while addressing the jury in the trial in which you are prosecuted for having clobbered him with the frying pan.

I became curious as to what happened to people who came out of the Nazi concentration camps and how on earth they dealt with having become separated from loved ones, particularly children, and having no idea whether they had been able to survive or what happened to them. This inability to protect your loved ones from harm, particularly one’s children, it’s probably the worst thing that can happen to a human being.

This is what I just found: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-aftermath-of-the-holocaust

Maybe like this.

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This is what the Dutch news looks like this morning and it struck me that the top headlines are about the United States and Canada on the left and California on the right, followed by headlines about Darfur, Ukraine and Russia and the magazine Rolling Stone.

Below that is a headline about Libya, one about Brazil and then finally the first Dutch news, about an explosion in Rotterdam.

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What to do with it, with all those glass-and-steel cubicles? That is what the Dutch “financial times” (FD) is asking. I get its daily emails, in case you have started wondering why I so often refer to it.

Simples.

House England’s homeless. The people whose income is so low that they can’t even get onto that housing ladder.

Who is going to write the proposal that will make it add up financially and approach all relevant parties? I’m sure it can be done. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

In view of the brilliant inclusive commercials HSBC has had in recent years, for example on a billboard along Lake Road in Portsmouth, certainly HSBC will want to listen and cooperate (unless it has a reason for wanting a PR disaster on its hands).

“Today, shed office. Tomorrow, head office.”

There you go.

(I have not seen that one in person. I remember a few that made me feel supported, as a migrant, however. They had a bold “keep pushing back against hostile Tory and Brexit sentiments, also post-Brexit” feel to them. I photographed at least one of them, possibly the one with the football photo. They gave off a strong message.)

The building is owned by the Quatar Investment Authority (QIA). It has a connection to the Canadian firm Brookfield. The Canary Wharf Group is owned by the QIA and Brookfield.

Who can step up?

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

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Here is one of those ads that I saw in Portsmouth pretty recently.

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Countryfile showed the deaths on Scottish salmon farms, but a fish welfare expert says the BBC didn’t go far enough

https://animalequality.org.uk/blog/2023/09/11/countryfile-deaths-scottish-salmon-farms-fish-welfare-expert-says-bbc-didnt-go-far-enough/

In my inbox, from Abigail Penny, Executive Director of Animal Equality UK:

Hi Angelina,

Last night was BIG.

BBC Countryfile investigated the Scottish salmon industry after Animal Equality shared undercover footage with them showing sick and dead fish.

People all over the country saw the footage supplied by Animal Equality to the BBC, showing the suffering behind the salmon products that they see on supermarket shelves.

And a lot of people have been reacting.

The Sun published an article this morning about the programme titled ‘Countryfile fans left sick to their stomach’.

We also saw comments from fellow animal protection organisations including OneKind, Compassion in World Farming, The Humane League, Animal Aid and more.

And more than 1,500 people have already signed our petition calling for the Scottish salmon industry to be halted from expanding any further!

There’ll be a lot of people thinking very differently about salmon today. I’m sure many have vowed never to eat Scottish salmon again and instead choose plant-based alternatives.

Supporters like you played a big role last night and I’m so thankful for everyone who’s fighting for fish right now.

Together, we’ve just pointed an enormous spotlight onto the Scottish salmon industry. Believe me, they’ll be feeling the pressure today.

But it wasn’t all positive.If you saw Countryfile, I’m sure you saw some of the coverage was not totally in support of fish.The Scottish salmon industry had plenty to say and they tried to play down the millions of deaths happening on its farms.

Angelina, we knew this would happen. We knew they’d try to defend their profits, even though millions of fish continue to suffer because of them.

That’s why I decided to record an interview with fish welfare expert, Professor Jennifer Jacquet, immediately after Countryfile aired.

In the video, we discuss the Countryfile episode and respond to some of the arguments made by the Scottish salmon industry.

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I’ve also added this illustrative video below about fish welfare.

I’m currently playing music by another English hate-fueled establishment bastard. Another loser who got lost in the English class system.

Of course, he wrote and played the music before he became part of the same establishment that he apparently used to go on about in those days.

No more time for paupers now.

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/inflammatory-response-may-influence-how-we-see-others

Also, there’s a link between inflammation (which can result after prolonged stress) and how we see others.

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Your skin doesn’t shape your health but it reflects it.

So if you look much younger than you actually are, you are probably in very good health and likely to live long. That leaves you plenty of time to cath up.

Besides, research has also shown that you are more likely to get hired when you have slightly rosy cheeks. It makes you look healthy. A touch of the blush brush can work wonders for those of you with allergies and other reasons for looking a little sallow (if you’re white).

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230823-the-curious-ways-your-skin-shapes-your-health