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malenkaya-glosoli · 2 years

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Thinking of Oxana Malaya (PLEASE READ)

CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of violent current events, neglect and some ableism.

My thoughts are with the people of Ukraine after and during the terrible Russian invasion there, but I have also not forgotten this woman who is one of the most vulnerable people there.

This is Oxana Malaya. Some of you have probably heard of her before. She’s commonly known as “the Dog Girl of Ukraine” because of her famous dog-like behaviour — a nickname which she has said offends her. Oxana was born in November 1983 in the village of Novaya Blagoveshchenka. The most common version of her story, which is the version still often passed around today, goes that one night when she was three years old, her alcoholic parents forgot her outside the house and that she sought shelter with a pack of wild dogs near her house. The story continues that Oxana was found still living with the dogs five years later at age eight, unable to speak or walk and instead crawling on all fours and barking. Some accounts with fabricated and exaggerated details published in tabloids claimed that she ate raw meat and when hurt would whine the way a dog might because she literally couldn’t cry. It has even been said that at the schools and orphanages Oxana was sent to, the nurses who had a fear of dogs were afraid of her too because she sounded and behaved so much like a real dog.

Although it took several years, Oxana was rehabilitated and socialised into human behaviour. She can draw, but is unable to read or write; and she learned to speak fluently, which is a rarity for most people who go through prolonged first-language deprivation since they usually end up not being able to use correct grammar or syntax or even master either at all. Although she was taught that barking instead of speaking is socially inappropriate, her caregivers suspected that she still did bark as well as crawl on all fours when in private. Oxana now lives at the Baraboi Clinic in or near Odessa, a group home for disabled adults that has its own farm where they can do work. In 2003, when Oxana was almost 20, a Portuguese documentary crew visited her and filmed her demonstrating her former behaviour for them. The video went viral on the early 2000s internet, which is how some of you may have heard of her, but, although she ultimately recovered, the experience did cause Oxana to regress for a time. Then in 2006, when Oxana was 23, a British child psychologist, Dr. Lynn Fry, visited her to perform an assessment on her. Although Dr. Fry said that she was warned that Oxana could “fly off the handle” and was “very uncooperative and socially inept” (note: Oxana is not autistic), once she met her she was surprised at Oxana’s intelligence and development. She concluded that Oxana had the “cognitive ability” of a five or six year old and likely wouldn’t progress much further (note: I don’t believe in mental age), that she also had the drawing skills of a five or six year old child, and that she had a sophisticated enough grasp of language to understand prepositions, although she speaks “flatly, as though it’s an order” and that “there is no cadence or rhythm or music to her speech, no inflection or tone.” Dr. Fry also added that Oxana loves to be the center of attention and to make people laugh. Oxana’s doctors have said that she would be unable to survive independently. At the same time as Dr. Fry’s visit, Oxana was reunited with her father and met her younger sister for the first time. She has said that it is her life’s dream to someday find and meet her mother.

In 2012, a British anthropologist, Dr. Mary Ann Ochota (shown above with Oxana), flew to Ukraine to investigate the truth of Oxana’s story. While there, Dr. Ochota found that there were no dogs living near Oxana’s childhood house at the time she lived there, that she was taken from her parents by the state as a toddler, and that she grew up in orphanages. At that time orphanages in Ukraine often had dogs on the premises, and Oxana preferred spending time with the dogs. One of her teachers from one of the orphanages recalled that Oxana tried to bark and move like the dogs, that she seemed to be trying to genuinely communicate with them and even confide in them, and that if she got hungry while feeding the dogs she would put her face on the plate and eat the food like how a dog would. Experts believe she spent so much time with the dogs and began imitating them as a way to cope with the trauma of suddenly being placed in an unfamiliar environment. Oxana spent her teenage years in a series of schools until she finally arrived at Baraboi. As of 2013, she had a new boyfriend, although her previous boyfriend (if not the same one) broke up with her after she showed him her former behaviour. She loves taking care of the animals on the farm and has come to see herself as fully human and wants others to see her as such “in spite of her upbringing”.

Please do not forget Oxana or the other disabled people in Ukraine. They are especially vulnerable during the current situation, and it’s terrifying to think what could happen to them. I hope that luck will be on their side and that the overall situation may be resolved soon and with as little violence as possible, although that seems extremely unlikely.

AGAIN, DO NOT FORGET OXANA OR HER PEOPLE!

#ukraine #oxana malaya

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The new ‘get out’ push (NYT) When the coronavirus lockdowns began almost two months ago, the outdoors seemed like a scary place. As more virus research has emerged, however, the outdoors has begun to look safer. One study of 1,245 coronavirus cases across China found that only two came from outdoors transmission. Beside the research, something else has also begun to make outdoors seem more attractive. People have started to go stir crazy. This combination is leading to a surge of new expert advice that might be boiled down to: Get out. Be careful about getting close to other people or touching surfaces. But experts are arguing that it’s time to think about how to move more activities outdoors—including socializing, eating, shopping, attending school and holding work meetings. Marty Makary of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health put it this way, “The outdoors is not only good for your mental state. It’s also a safer place than indoors.”

An economic hit ‘without modern precedent’ (NYT) The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell, delivered a stark warning on Wednesday that the United States was experiencing an economic hit “without modern precedent,” one that could permanently damage the economy if Congress and the White House did not provide sufficient financial support to prevent a wave of bankruptcies and prolonged joblessness. Mr. Powell’s blunt diagnosis was the latest indication that the trillions of dollars that policymakers have already funneled into the economy may not be enough to forestall lasting damage from a virus that has already shuttered businesses and thrown more than 20 million people out of work.

Empty streets, no pedestrian deaths in New York (Foreign Policy) As one of the jurisdictions worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic globally, the city of New York has had more than its fair share of bad news over the past few weeks. Lockdown measures have produced one sliver of good news though: New York has not had a single pedestrian death for the longest period since 1983 (when records began). Polly Trottenberg, the New York City transportation commissioner, said the city has now gone 58 days without a pedestrian dying from being struck by a vehicle. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is looking to make the empty streets that have produced this statistic permanent, with a plan to free up 100 miles of New York city’s roadways to bicycles and pedestrians to create space for social distancing in the cramped city. The move follows a trend of cities increasing space for bicycles and pedestrians already announced in Berlin, Paris, and London.

Think we have military primacy over China? Think again. (Washington Post) Here’s a fact that ought to startle every American who assumes that because we spend nearly $1 trillion each year on defense, we have primacy over our emerging rival, China. “Over the past decade, in U.S. war games against China, the United States has a nearly perfect record: We have lost almost every single time.” That’s a quote from a new book called “The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare,” the most provocative critique of U.S. defense policy I’ve read in years. It’s written by Christian Brose, former staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a close adviser to late senator John McCain (R-Ariz.). The book isn’t just a wake-up call, it’s a fire alarm in the night. Brose explains a terrible truth about war with China: Our spy and communications satellites would immediately be disabled; our forward bases in Guam and Japan would be “inundated” by precise missiles; our aircraft carriers would have to sail away from China to escape attack; our F-35 fighter jets couldn’t reach their targets because the refueling tankers they need would be shot down. “Many U.S. forces would be rendered deaf, dumb and blind,” writes Brose. We have been so busy buffing our legacy systems that, as Brose writes, “the United States got ambushed by the future.”

Mexico to start reopening border region as coronavirus lockdown eases (Washington Post) The government says it will lift a quarantine for hundreds of counties starting May 18 and will begin to gradually reopen the rest of the nation June 1 as it seeks to emerge from the pandemic.

Colombia Militarizes Brazil Border Amid Jump in Virus Cases (Bloomberg) Colombia is increasing its military presence along the border with Brazil to head off the spread of new coronavirus cases as infections and deaths rise in Amazonas province, President Ivan Duque announced. “We’ve decided to militarize all border points,” Duque said Tuesday evening. The military will have “greater presence and exercise respective control to prevent imported cases” from arriving. The government also announced more funds for the local health system to help it cope with the spike in infections. With Brazil fast-emerging as the new global hot spot for the coronavirus pandemic, neighboring nations have grown increasingly concerned that the loose approach by Latin America’s largest country poses a risk to their capacity to contain the virus, even with shuttered borders. Paraguay President Abdo Benitez warned last week that the situation in Brazil threatens his country’s containment measures as well, leading him to increase military presence along the border. The Uruguayan government also voiced concern, saying the country will increase monitoring of border crossings to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading from Brazil.

‘Total’ lockdown for Chile capital after virus spike (AFP) Chile’s government ordered a mandatory total quarantine for the capital Santiago on Wednesday after a 60 percent spike in coronavirus infections in the previous 24 hours. “The most severe measure I must announce is a total quarantine in Greater Santiago,” home to 80 percent of the country’s 34,000-plus infections, Health Minister Jaime Manalich said. Chile had until now opted for a selective quarantine strategy in dealing with the pandemic, limiting the measures to areas with high incidence of infection.

Thinking outside the pub (Reuters) Britain’s pubs may be shut, but one east London brewer has found a novel way to keep the beer flowing—by packing his kegs into a van and pulling pints on people’s doorsteps. Driving a white van with the slogan “tactical beer response unit” on the side, Peter Brown, the director of Forest Road Brewing, spends his day fulfilling delivery orders.

Russians running out of money (Bloomberg) Russians are running out of money after six weeks of lockdown and minimal government support, adding to pressure that pushed President Vladimir Putin to start reopening the economy even as the infection total surges to the second-highest in the world. Almost half of Russians have either no savings or just enough to cover them for the next four weeks, a survey by Moscow’s Centre for Strategic Research published this week showed. About a quarter of the population has had to spend reserves since the start of the lockdown to cover a drop in income, according to the central bank. “The situation with incomes has become pretty dreadful,” said Dmitry Dolgin, an economist at ING Bank in Moscow. “Pressure will increase either to ease the lockdown or ease fiscal policy.”

China Suspends Australian Meat Imports (Foreign Policy) China has suspended imports from four major Australian meat firms, escalating a quarrel between the two countries over the origins of the novel coronavirus. Speaking at a press conference, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian said the suspension was not connected to the dispute but was instead a matter of regulation—and then went on to issue further economic threats against Australia. The warnings are backed up by increasingly belligerent editorials in state media. The dispute began with the Australian government’s call for an independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. China has reacted strongly against allowing a transparent, multilateral probe in Wuhan and acted to impede Chinese investigators. That could be a sign that there’s something to hide—whether sloppy regulation of the wildlife trade or even a biosafety accident. But Beijing’s reaction may also be a byproduct of a paranoid system. China has a track record of using trade measures to punish countries that challenge its ideological demands, such as its suspension of salmon imports from Norway after the Nobel Peace Prize—administered by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament—was awarded in 2010 to the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The next step may be to foment boycotts against Australian firms, as was done to South Korean companies over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system.

Chinese Threats against Taiwan (Foreign Policy) Taiwan has been taking advantage of its success against the coronavirus to highlight its exclusion from the World Health Organization and push for a bigger place on the international stage. Perhaps unsurprisingly, China has responded with both rhetorical threats and military provocations, according to a U.S. congressional report. But such saber-rattling is unlikely to lead to invasion given the scale of the pandemic challenges Beijing faces at home. In Hong Kong, however, the government is doubling down on repression—with a new law that criminalizes booing China’s national anthem high on the agenda.

Typhoon Vongfong churns toward the Philippines (Washington Post) Typhoon Vongfong is the first named storm of the 2020 West Pacific typhoon season, but it already has the makings of a potentially significant storm. The Philippines is bracing for a close shave or direct hit later this week as the intensifying system churns ominously closer to the archipelago. The JTWC expects Typhoon Vongfong to continue at Category 3 strength by Thursday afternoon or evening local time. During this time frame, Vongfong should track northwest, skimming the Philippines’ eastern Visayas and the Bicol region. That probably means a very close shave of the western eyewall on the eastern shores of the island of Samar, where winds ranging from tropical storm to hurricane force and a storm surge of several feet are likely.

Niger says 75 Boko Haram fighters killed (Foreign Policy) Niger’s defense ministry said it had killed 75 Boko Haram insurgents during operations conducted earlier in the week in the border region between Niger, Nigeria, and Chad. Niger’s military said the assault was in retaliation for Boko Haram attacks on military positions near the town of Diffa in the country’s southeast. On Tuesday, Babar Baloch, a spokesperson for the United Nations’ Refugee Agency, said that violence across the border in Nigeria had forced 23,000 refugees to flee to Niger in April alone. It brings the total number of Nigerians taking refuge in Niger to over 60,000.

Limits of the ‘aristocracy of the wise’ (Worldcrunch) Whether or not they were looking for it, the COVID-19 crisis has given epidemiologists bonafide public power. “At this point, if Drosten says it is too early, that carries as much weight as Merkel saying it,” quipped German economist Marcel Fratzscher about his country’s top epidemiologist Christian Drosten and top politician Angela Merkel. There is no doubt that the pandemic, epidemiologists, virologists and medical professionals worldwide have stepped into the muddy terrain of national politics. Though the public may not understand every technical detail epidemiologists offer on TV or at press conferences, there’s a certain comfort in listening to the scientists who have spent their lives studying the kinds of epidemics that now occupy our minds, if not lives. Still, as Kenyan economist David Ndii pointed out on Twitter, the current rise of the “epistocracy”—the aristocracy of the wise—should be watched with caution. Although doctors may be adept at curing our bodies and understanding the dynamics of pathogens, they have far less experience managing people and guiding societies.

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d2kvirus · 4 years

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Dickheads of the Month: December 2019

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of December 2019 to make sure that they are never forgotten.

There’s something wrong with the British electorate when they look at nine years of austerity, massive layoffs in police and NHS staff, outright persecution of the disabled, the country’s economy and standing being completely tanked and housing safety reports being sat on until Grenfell went up and their thought is “I want five more years of that!”

...although nobody should overlook how Liberal Democrat supporters refused to accept any responsibility for the result, in spite their party being directly responsible in handing control of Kensington to the Tories by 150 votes, as well as splitting the votes in Tory marginals Cities of London & Westminster and Finchley & Golders Green

...while Blue Labour crawled out of the woodwork to say the reason why Labour lost was because they weren’t indistinguishable enough from the Tories (which makes so much sense...) while saying the party should have listened to Caroline Flint - the same Caroline Flint who said that Labour should shut up and fall in line with the Tories...and lost her seat as a result

Nothing sums up Laura Kuenssberg better than how, the day before the General Election, she appeared on Politics Live to either blatantly lie about seeing postal votes or casually break electoral law by discussing postal vote results she claims to have seen - which is a direct violation of the The Representation of the People Act 1983

...although with Laura Kuenssberg being Laura Kuenssberg it wasn’t long before yet another example of gross unprofessionalism reared its head when she forgot her job is to report the news and not create it according to her own personal bias when she said history would condemn all Remainers who tried to undo Britait, which not only happens to be a direct violation of the BBC’s editorial guidelines but also betrays a remarkable failure to understand history

...and she was hardly the only example of this, not when Suraj Sharma was putting up anti-Corbyn posters outside polling stations across Merseyside on election day in spite doing so being illegal

It shouldn't surprise anyone that proven liar Boris Johnson broke his election promises within a week of duping the electorate, with him binning off pledges on workers rights, raising minimum wage and taking No Deal off the table - yet somehow the ignorant foghorns defend this by saying something about four legs being good

...soon afterwards proven liar Boris Johnson also reneged on the campaign pledge to raise the national living wage to £10.50 and instead raised it to £8.72 - and of course the BBC tried to spin that as a good thing, crowing about the percentage that it had increased by instead of how the Tories have been pledging that figure since the 2015 election

Smirking halfwit Priti Patel decided she too wanted to exploit the London Bridge attack for political gain and was quick to claim that the laws that saw the attacker released were implemented by a Labour government...in spite the obvious issue that he was released due to laws passed in 2012, i.e. when the Tories were in government and Theresa May was serving as Home Secretary, but that’s not important right now...

...soon afterwards Godfrey Bloom also decided the best course of action was to go on the offensive against the deceased’s family, going so far as to say that as the deceased believed Jihadists should be released early he reaped what he sowed and, by the way, could the deceased’s father pipe down and stop saying nasty things about the Tories

Australians were happy when their Prime Minister Scott Morrison responded to the widespread wildfires torching the country by...not being there as he’d rather bugger off to Hawaii on holiday, and having begrudgingly cut his holiday short his next suggestion was to try and withhold compensation for the volunteer firefighters that were combating what had become the most widespread wildfires in decades

Tory donors Alan Howard and Jeremy Isaacs showed how committed the two are to the party and to Britait by...paying millions of their own money to buy Cypriot passports so they don’t have to leave the EU like the plebs who voted to Leave will have to

It’s not even a surprise that the BBC somehow mutated a story of fact-checkers revealing that 88% of Tory Facebook ads contained lies compared to 0% of Labour’s into a headline saying both parties had been warned about publishing untruths during the campaign as opposed to just one of them

...although ITV were not far behind with their reimagining of Stormzy saying “Yes, 100%” as an answer to the question “Do you think Britain is racist?” into the headline “Stormzy says Britain is ‘100% racist’” which (predictably) got those who get far more riled up by the suggestion that they’re racist than they ever are by the existence of racism to kick off on social media

Nobody was surprised that Allison Pearson responded to the photos of the four year-old boy sleeping on the floor of Leeds General Infirmary was to claim the photos were staged...and being the coward that she is, she played the usual “I was hacked” card as if she doesn’t have a track record for shit like this

Among the wave of inept tactical voting guides The Guardian published the most inept of them all, telling their readers to vote Lib Dem in seats held by pro-Remain Labour MPs - which worked out marvelously in Kensington, didn’t it?

...and right before the year ended Jeremy Gilbert further aided The Guardian’s credentials of not having a clue by writing a hit piece saying that if Labour want to win elections they need to not be Labour, as if Clement Atlee or Harold Wilson didn’t exist - or, more likely with the usual centrist idiocy, the belief that Labour didn’t exist until Tony Blair came along and made them Labour In Name Only

Of course the dogwhistling boneheads would find some excuse to foam at the mouth about Diane Abbott during the election campaign, and this time it was her wearing two different shoes, which begs just one question: “...and?”

In a remarkable act of cowardice Arsenal responded to the Chinese state broadcaster pulling a broadcast of their match of their match against Manchester City due to Mesut Ozil’s criticism of the country’s treatment of Uighur Muslims by...throwing Ozil under the bus and claiming he doesn’t represent the club

In the mind of Patrice Désilets the reason why Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey got remarkably average Metacritic reviews isn’t because the game has a boring gameplay loop and unintuitive controls, but because a couple of reviewers spoke about features that weren’t in the game (although he neglected to say who those reviewers were, as they don’t appear to be on Metacritic) that obviously mean that all reviewers didn’t play the game and just decided to be negative for the sake of it

As if going full Pravda wasn’t reason enough to doubt anything the BBC say ever again, the fact that they ran a story about Cats receiving glowing reviews further showed just how uninterested they are in reporting an actual story compared to their own interpretation of it

When it emerged that Caroline Flack had assaulted her partner by cracking him in the head with a lamp while he was sleeping her response was to come out swinging with a bullish attitude that she wouldn't leave Love Island really worked in her favour...for about a day, until ITV announced she’d been replaced, and it wasn’t as if they had to look too hard for a replacement

It’s the time of year where Kevin Spacey posts a video of him totally in character as Frank Underwood from House of Cards...which was the creepy side of weird last year, but this year weird’s gone out the window

Somebody opened the crypt in which Michael Howard sleeps his eternal slumber, meaning we had to hear him venture his opinion about how judges should not be allowed to use their knowledge or judgment and instead shut up and fall in line with what the government tells them to do

Somehow a story about how Jo Maugham killed a fox in his back garden with a baseball bat while wearing his wife’s silk kimono on Boxing Day morning wasn’t a headline from Guido Blog designed to whip up their readers into indignant and/or ignorant rage, instead something that Jo Maugham himself tweeted on Boxing Day morning having done just that

Of course Tom Watson crawled out the woodwork to say it;s terrible how Labour members hated him...while at no point mentioning his years of backstabbing or how he tried to disqualify Labour members from voting in a leadership election so he could install the centrist option that nobody wanted

Nobody was surprised to see Darren Grimes taking to Twitter to bemoan the lack of funding in public infrastructure in the north...just as nobody was surprised to see the penny clearly hadn’t dropped with him that he was campaigning on behalf of the people who slashed public service infrastructure funding in the north for the past nine years

Hard centre extremist Andrew Adonis thought it was a smart idea to say that Corbynism needs to be “eradicated” from the Labour party. Just a hint: that’s what Tom Watson thought was a bright idea

It’s one thing for Youtube to play it safe with this year’s Youtube Rewind after last year’s downvote prison romance, but making the 2019 Rewind little more than a WatchMojo list video without the commentary goes beyond playing it safe and into being downright lazy

For a brief moment Giles Coren thought he was Rod Liddle, judging by his Times column where he spoke about Owen Jones getting a peerage and preying on the anal virginity of young researchers

There’s something pathetic about various WWE wrestlers taking to Twitter to mouth off about a badly-performed spot on an episode of AEW Dynamite that can either be explained by them being ordered to tweet that crap out by Vince McMahon or by their suddenly feeling threatened, which only served to make them look like the pro-WWE trolls that howl about everything AEW-related in a manner which stopped being amusing and started being concerning a couple of months ago

And finally, because of course, is Thanos wannabe Donald Trump and his belief that Justin Trudeau is “two-faced” because he said nasty things about the Orange Overlord - but of course, there’s no record of Trump ever saying nasty things about any nation’s leader after pretending to be all buddy-buddy with them

#dickheads of the month

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omnipop-mag-blog · 6 years

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http://time.com/5261014/michelle-wolf-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner/

Been there, done that. The first thing you have to know about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which I performed at in 1993, is that every comedian who entertains there is trashed by the press and members of government as soon as it is over. Even if you got huge laughs with brilliant commentary, you will be attacked. It’s almost as if members of the government are so used to denial and backtracking, they can’t admit they just had a good time (and here they don’t even have to use taxpayer money and NDAs to keep people quiet about it). So you go in with guns blazing; you’re going to pay the price anyway. It’s your chance to “write your Congressman.”

Why do they bring comics in for this? The press and government are so insulated, they think they need to hear one outside voice — one person who travels the country and moves among real people. But as soon as they hear what real people are saying, they get rabid.

Male, female, clean, “dirty,” the only real criteria for a comedian is “funny.” This year, Michelle Wolf’s political jokes were so funny and mostly on target, and so there’s the usual firestorm. (It just seems bigger this year due to the proliferation of social media outlets and endless news programming.) Outrage is how you know you did well. Here’s how well she really did; since the media can’t defend against the truth in her jokes, they’ve decided to rally around White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the apologist for a man who is dismantling decades of hard-won progress for women’s dignity, equality and reproductive freedom, over a joke they wrongly said was critical of her looks.

Sanders is a human steamroller — regularly shutting down journalists’ inquiries about the truth — yet she puts on an evening dress (I thought she looked lovely, by the way) and suddenly she’s Blanche DuBois? If the attendees didn’t get the joke about Sanders “being great in The Handmaid’s Tale” (which I will laugh at for the next 10 years), it’s because this administration is so anti-woman, they’ve never read the book or seen the show. Then-candidate Trump once said of Carly Fiorina, “Look at that face! Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?” Where was their outrage then — for an actual slam at a woman’s looks, and one not said in the context of comedy?

When I did the dinner, I was criticized for my jokes about capital punishment, abortion, gun control, sex education — all of which would sadly still work today, because we can’t make enough progress in this country. That’s why we need a Michelle Wolf, and the next comic, and the next, to get up there and keep saying it, in front of the people who write about it and the people who make the laws. Maybe to punish them all, next year a comic should come up and just talk about airlines, cell phones and being single.

Margaret Talev, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said the evening is supposed to “promote unity.” Maribel Perez Wadsworth, the publisher of USA Today, wrote a letter to Talev: “Ms. Wolf represents one point of view… Is it appropriate that we invite a celebrity to launch a relentless… attack on the very people we cover?”

They’re both missing what was missing: The President.

No matter what the comedian’s politics have been since the dinner began using comics in 1983, the President of the United States was there to respond. The President got his chance to roast and counter-attack in the spirit of the evening and, yes, in the spirit of unity. This is the first president since this dinner began in 1921 not to attend —not including President Ronald Reagan, who still called in by phone after being shot in an assassination attempt. Like all bullies, current President “I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon” is a coward. He’s capable of delivering his “witticisms” against the media, Democrats and others only from a safe distance. Like all bullies, he can never engage on an even playing field.

Yessiree, Saturday night he was the funniest guy in Washington, Michigan. No contest.

When I did the dinner in 1993, President Bill Clinton had just come off one of the worst first 100 days in office: the Tailhook scandal, the Branch Davidian fiasco, not getting his budget passed and so on. Yet he showed up, took the hits and brilliantly answered in the spirit of the evening. That takes intelligence.

Wolf was “wildly inappropriate” and “raunchy” and didn’t take the high road? The high road was demolished at Donald Trump’s first presidential debate and is now a sinkhole. Mocking the disabled is inappropriate. Raunchy and vulgar? Well, that’s just locker room talk. If only Michelle Wolf had smiled more…

Whatever you think of this dinner, it’s a venerable tradition in a free country that celebrates a free press. By not attending, this president continues his bulldozing of American traditions like decency, inclusiveness and fair play. His review from afar? “This was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great country.” He ought to know. The comic reflects the times.

The post New story in Entertainment from Time: I Was a Correspondents’ Dinner Comedian. Michelle Wolf Was No Bully appeared first on OMNI POP MAG.

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A Deceptive Coup – Ireland and the Globalist Abortion Agenda

On Friday 25 May the Irish electorate will decide on whether or not to repeal the Eighth Amendment which would allow for abortion on demand. The Eighth Amendment clarifies:

"The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."

This is the phrasing exactly as it appears in the Irish constitution and to alter it would require a referendum in the Republic of Ireland. Since 1983 the Amendment has acknowledged the right to life of the unborn, equating it with the mother’s right to life. A pro-abortion coalition was launched to repeal this amendment in September 2017. However, regardless of where one stands in relation to abortion, a very disturbing sequence of events has recently unfolded which casts the sinister shadow of globalist infiltration over the debate.

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It now seems that once again a Cultural Marxist, liberal agenda to alter Irish society has become apparent. Unbeknownst to many who are advocating for abortion, a leaked document revealed that George Soros' Open Society Foundation was heavily funding the main pro-abortion campaign groups: Amnesty International Ireland, the Abortion Rights Campaign and the Irish Family Planning Association. The strategy was to use Ireland as a litmus test for the purpose of implementing abortion in the future, in other mainly Catholic European nations. The Open Society Foundation actually stated that it would fund these three Irish organizations;

to work collectively on a campaign to repeal Ireland’s constitutional amendment granting equal rights to an implanted embryo as the pregnant woman. With one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, a win there could impact other strongly Catholic countries in Europe, such as Poland and provide much needed proof that change is possible, even in highly conservative places.

This makes the intentions of this organization patently clear. A further revelation from the leaked document was even more insidious.

The recent legislation of same-sex marriage (in Ireland) offers valuable and timely opportunities to advance the campaign.

According to Cora Sherlock, Deputy Chairperson of the Pro-Life Campaign;

"These revelations are extremely disturbing… the fact that an outside body is talking about funding and coordinating groups in Ireland to dismantle protection for the unborn child represents a gross interference and is an attack on democracy.’ She then continued, "I think most people want to see a fair debate regardless of where they stand on the issue. The public will be deprived of such a debate if this kind of meddling continues from well-funded outside bodies."

To make it even more blatantly obvious that the Irish Abortion Referendum is influenced by a globalist liberal Marxist agenda, the three organizations in question defended their receipt of the funding.

There is now a manifested level of emotional self-righteous indignation with anything to do with traditional values in Ireland, coming predominantly from the college-attending millennial generation that borders on the unhinged. The same level of feminist bile on display at the Women’s March is evident at Irish pro-abortion rallies. Chanting slogans and rhetoric in uniformity is now the norm with, as per usual, opportunities for civilized debate being null and void. Those who oppose the rhetoric are labelled fascist, et cetera. Unfortunately it is these heavily indoctrinated college campus revolutionaries who will vote en-masse to repeal the Eight Amendment and lead Ireland even closer to the Cultural Marxist utopia, which is the globalist dream.

I have no doubt that many of those who support the abortion agenda in Ireland are unaware of its Marxist influence or even of its historic relationship with the eugenics movement of the early 20th Century. After the atrocities of WW2, eugenics was given the less controversial moniker of ‘population control’ or ‘birth control’. In America, the eugenics promoter, Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League changed its name to Planned Parenthood and the ‘Eugenics Quarterly’ journal was rebranded ‘Social Biology.’ In fact, Sanger was quoted as saying prior to WW2;

"the most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it."

Her radical socialist views would create the eventual blueprint for the new feminism mainstreamed in the 1960’s and ‘70’s.

Yet how did it ever come to this? To understand the level of Cultural Marxist indoctrination and its ‘slow march through the institutions’ we have to remember that this has been an ongoing battle to destroy all Western values since the renegade Marxist, Max Horkheimer became director of the infamous Frankfurt School in 1930. He believed that the real enemy of Communism was not Capitalism but Western Culture and its inherent values. Victory would be attained only after ‘Christian beliefs had died in the soul of Western Man.’ In order to achieve this, the institutions of culture and education would have to be captured. This new road to cultural hegemony would be achieved through psychological conditioning, with the social and moral beliefs represented by the nuclear family as prime targets. By destroying the traditionally strong bonds of the family and the nurturing values it represents, Western values would soon crumble, fostering the greater potential to replace Western traditional society with something wholly different – a Marxist, atomised society more dependent on the tenets of the state which would then become the surrogate family.

With the Irish mainstream media, political establishment and educational institutions all advocating for the right to abortion on demand, it would seem that the Cultural Marxist agenda has finally achieved its aims. After all, is that not the premise we are expected to abide by now in Ireland without being vilified? However, it does not have to be like this.

So, notwithstanding the abortion legislation already introduced in 2013 allowing for limited abortion where the life of the mother was in danger, the Eighth Amendment provides the last remaining protection for the unborn child in Ireland and should be robustly defended.

According to the Pro-Life Campaign, each human being regardless of age, gender, disability, race, status in society, possesses a profound, inherent, equal and irreplaceable value and dignity. Abortion advocates want the unborn child to be an exception to this rule. To do this they resort to the ploy of denying the humanity of the unborn. However, the indicator of a truly civilised society, however, is one that welcomes everyone in life and protects everyone in its laws.

Cora Sherlock of the Pro-Life Campaign said:

"The 8th Amendment (Article 40.3.3) is the last remaining constitutional protection for the unborn in Ireland. Since its insertion into the Constitution in 1983, it has ensured that pregnant women in Ireland receive all necessary medical treatment and at the same time has provided full protection for the unborn child’s right to life. It is no exaggeration to say that tens of thousands of people are alive in Ireland today thanks to the 8th Amendment. We know of many mothers who are grateful for the Amendment, because without it their children may never have been born."

She further clarified that;

"Since the Government introduced abortion legislation in 2013, abortion is legal throughout the full nine months of pregnancy on a threat of suicide, without any medical evidence to back it up. This law is unjust and must be repealed but at least while the 8th Amendment is still in place, the right to life of the unborn child must still be considered by doctors in Ireland. What Deputy Coppinger (of the Irish Socialist Party) and her supporters ignore is that the repeal of this Amendment would remove the rights of an entire group of human beings in Irish society – the unborn."

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I can only hope now that the Irish electorate and the millennial generation in particular will not only realise this but also the sinister agenda of globalism delving furtively behind the scene as well.

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Health and safety in HSC Sample assignment

Health and Safety in health and social care

HND Health and social care

Introduction

A strong relationship got build up in between the organization and its employees if an employer will take care of their health and safety. It is only possible when the workers are treating by them equally or as a human being. No discrimination is follow as rich or poor. The companies should provide best facilities of safety & health to its employees and at the time of employees’ recruitment, nothing should be hiding from them. All risk & terms are clearly states to them at that time especially in risk bearing factories.

Task1

AC1.1 In Health and Social care organizations: review systems, policies & procedures used in communicating & maintain the Health & safety at work in accordance to legislative requirements.

Legislation:

Health and Safety at work Act, 1974: It is the legal legislative, which pass by the government of United Kingdom. In this all those executive those are working for taking care of Health & safety of the others at their workplace, they work upon this aim with some of the strong bodies / authorities. They take care of those crowds of people who work as the diver, coalmines, working at top (height) and areas those are surround with radiations and harmful chemicals. Their purpose is to follow and consider that all the employers are following these legislatives in their workplace. (Ambulance, 2011).

Health & safety Offences Act, 2008: It is follows by the organizations that take care about their workers safety and these safety rules are taken care by the company’s trade unions under the safety committee regulations. Operational manager appointed by the company to take their training & states all the risks related with employment before recruiting them. Otherwise, it is punishable by the court.

Employment Medical advisory service act, 1972: This act will provide all the facilities of the medical examination of the workers by the organizations. Young people and women are getting this facility throughout the employment period. Doctor appointed by the factory or associated with some hospital that is on the panel of the factory & these medical facilities are given.

Policies

Health & safety (First aid) regulations 1981:It includes various tasks performs by the employer-

It is the duty of the employer to provide First aid equipment.

Analyse the whole situation around working area.

Authority of given exemptions.

Duty of ordered other employees to provide the first aid treatment to the victim (Collins, 2009).

2. Management of Health & social Regulation 1999: It consist four aspects-

– Main elements those manage about health & safety in Organization:

– Perform according to requirement.

– Provide valuable arrangements.

– Resources: it means employees who avail such benefits.

The above two are perform by the owners, managers, Line Mangers and the third is by the person who is the face of the organization in providing these benefits.

Mental health Care Act 2007: It implies on the population of the UK those are suffering from the Mania disease. This act passed by the government in 1983 and was revise in 2005 and last in 2007. Here all medical facilities and health care with social groups are given to these types of patients.

Task2

AC1.3 2.2 Analyse the health & safety priorities that are important to Mr. W’s health and wellbeing. In relation, analyse the impact of one aspect on health & safety policy on Mr. W and health & safety practice.

There are variant problems that may face by the social care that is risk on the management of the care home. An effective approach follows in the health and the social care base on the two methods Quantitative & Qualitative. These include the performance of the staff those offer medical or other services to the patients and evaluation of health hazards, if any. Especially in the case of the psychiatrist patient may commit suicide. There are certain policies in the favour of the health of the patients those mentioned in the legislatures of the country are strictly adhering by the care home. As the above health & safety policies are states for the concern of the people at their work place the same implies in the hospitals and the Home cares also. A proper medication & treatment is requiring for Mr. W. These types of patients handled with care & patience. Under the Mental act 1983 either they are admitted to the hospital or taken care by the relatives and nearby authorities. K is appointed to take care of Mr. W. she is professionally trained to handle such situation that arose in front of him. Patients generally forget everything and not in their senses. Under sec 117 in after care services K has sent at Mr. W’s home (Stranks, 2010). The authorities give the treatment to these patients at their home without charging any fees from them directly. If they sent patients to caring homes then they only pay fees to these homes on behalf of patients. Now here in this case study, under the policy of mental act 1983 the local authorities acts as a guardian and K is appointed by them as a guardian for Mr. W. If any of the relative of Mr. W comes and does objection in the treatment then they have to consider his opinion. It is the responsibility of K to take care & mange all matters according to the welfare of Mr. W. An approach of PCP (person centre approach) is an appropriate suitable for handling the patient of mental disable. It is started by the government in 2001 and provides medications in improving the patient capability in their learning.

AC1.2 Draw your organizational chart using this as a guide; assess the responsibilities in a specific health & social care workplace for management of health & safety in relation to organizational structures.

(Source: Own)

Care Home is the authority that takes care on the health & the safety of its whole region. It has many branches that take care about the health of the people of different areas. Some areas cover all the districts come under them and a proper management or team get appoints for each individual branch and take care of the security & the health. It follows the Person centred planning approach in the working. They handle the mental disabled person. Various people and organisations are involved in improving the learning and skill of the patients. There are two ways of taking care of the patients. Either make them admitted in the hospital or take care of them in their own home by their family members, social activist or psychiatrist professionals as in this case study. These authorities can bring the patients at their home centres. Here, the treatment is like home. They work with the hospitals where they can take the patients if they really need to admit. The treatment given to the patient at his/ her home called as a family practitioner where the nurse or the trained medical supervisor goes to the patient home and treats him there (Stretch, 2007). Like in the above case study” k” went to Mr. W’s home. She is the family practitioner and appointed there by the care home for taking care of Mr. W. She takes care of his health by giving him a proper medication prescribed by the doctor. She tries to handle all such situations that may occur by the psychiatrist patient with care and patience.

AC2.1 Produce a risk assessment based on your work and analyse how information from these is used in identifying service user’s needs & organizational decision-making.

Organization name: ABC Care Home

What are the hazards? Who might be harmed & how? What are you already doing? Do you need to do anything else to manage this risk? Action by whom? Action by when? Complete where+ how? Psychiatrist patient try to attempt the suicide & if it occurs then it will be the high-risk assessment for the management of the Health & safety care authority. Mr. W by doing suicide or self-harm. Handling Mr. W by the care practitioner “K” with patience and affection Yes, a counselling session must be arranged for the patient. First, before any counselling try to win patient’s trust so that he will listen to the “k”. Ask questions openly to the patient in the counselling so that he may share his problem. A family practitioner handles the situation by doing the same as she is a trained professional and sent by the care authority. On an immediate basis. More time will be risky for the patient. K can handle the situation with providing medication & counselling to Mr. W at his home or else taken to the hospital in the presence of the other experienced doctors.

Case Study 2

Case Study 2 will be discussing on the information and its correct usage for the risk assessment and even resolution of dilemmas is done in health and social care.

2.1 Analyse how information from risk assessments would assist care planning for individuals and organizational decision making about policies and procedures which would avoid incidents similar to the one given in the study.

Policies, practices and systems at health and social care settings are developed so that there is a regularity and maintenance of the instructions and rules at workplace (Sheeran & Silverman, 2003). As per the case scenario the South Birmingham Primary Care Trust has failed in fulfilling its duty and has exposed the patient to the grave situations. This has also resulted in the severe accident for the patient at this centre. There is a requirement of the risk assessment; monitoring, handling and controlling processes and instructions that should be given to the service or the care workers so that they ensure that there is always maintained a risk free conditions are the workplace. The information that is availed from the risk assessments help in the effective care planning for the individuals working for the organization:

Certain examples and cases from the risk assessment ensure that the same incidents are not repeated and suitable actions are taken in this regard.

This information gives an insight on the ways in which the various equipment and safety devices and tools have to be handled and operated.

Based on the various incidents, the care planning policies, procedures and the practices would be developed for the further employment and use.

The risks assessment and its implementation have to be carried out in all types of health and social care settings irrespective of their sizes. These risk assessment and safety practices and procedures then will help in taking effective organizational decisions that would be better for the future of the health care settings (Çakir et al, 1980).

2.2 Analyse the impact on the health and safety policy on lifting and handling in health and social care practice and on the care users in the organization given in the study.

There is strong impact on the health and safety policy on handling & lifting in the health and social care practice and care takers in the organization. The impact could be explained as per the case of South Birmingham is:

There would be development of effective policies, practices and systems at the workplace which will help in aligning the practices with the business model of the health care settings.

All the employees working in partnership for the organization will get trained on the use of the devices and tools like sling in the different cases.

There would be efficiency in the operations of the health and safety care settings.

The risks and problems that may be encountered at the workplace would be avoided and controlled in the health and social care settings.

There should be a development and growth of the hygienic and clean environment ate the health and social care settings for security & safety of the care takers and the service users.

Risk assessment should not be left like that rather should be developed as a module that may help the faculty or the senior medical professionals can train all the employees working for it.

2.3 Discuss the dilemmas care workers will encounter in carrying out health and safety policies and procedures.

When care workers fulfil their duties and responsibilities in everyday life then they are bound to encounter certain dilemmas and these are listed as under:

The usage of specific equipment and tools may be defined under certain cases but the patient is not responding to it so whether they should be place in those circumstances.

To apply the same rules and regulations under all the conditions or there can be exceptions which have to be handled differently.

Whether the patients could be given certain substitutes in case the original medication prescribed by the doctors and specialists are not available (Viscusi, 1983).

To apply certain authority and entrepreneurship in certain situations in case there is lack of equipped and specialists doctors available.

These above mentioned are certain lists of dilemmas that may arise among the staff working for the South Birmingham centre. Similarly there may be various other types of situations that may lead to confusion.

2.4 Analyse the effects of non-compliance with health and safety legislation in the health and social care workplace.

There are harmful effects in case there is no follow as per compliance in the health and safety legislation, these have been listed as under:

There would not be clarity on the duties, roles and responsibilities of the various staff working for the Social and health care settings. As happened for case too, there was non-clarity on what has to be exposed to the service user. Due to non-clarity, the staff may function reversely and their entire functionality would be affected.

The staff will keep on quarrelling and fighting with each other. This is due to the reason that they will postpone and delegate their tasks on others thereby making each other unhappy and dissatisfied thereby developing unhealthy work environment.

The organization will have low productivity and lack in terms of the efficiency that has to be obtained and achieved.

There could be audits and checks by the governmental authorities there by failing the organization in following the compliances and cancelling the licenses of the health and social care settings.

When the health and social care organizations will not be complying with the legislative requirements and acts there the entire purpose and function of the health and social are settings would be spoiled. In the nutshell it could be said that safety regulations and processes have their significance in the health and social care settings. Unless there is proper compliance of the policies, procedures and systems, there would always be risks, problems and dilemmas that would exist in the health care settings.

Case Study 3

Case Study 3 would be an understanding on the monitoring and review of health and safety in the health and social care workplace. Health and Safety has to be maintained at the workplace under the said rules, regulations, provisions and the acts that are being developed. It is also important that the policies, systems or the procedures that are developed are compared and benchmarked with the industry standards. This will help us in assessing and improving them to the highest level of performance.

3.1 Based on the information given in the document explain how health and safety practices are monitored and reviewed.

Health and safety practices have to be monitored and checked on regular intervals. This is due to the reason that the things designed may be applied and implemented in the initial or the earlier situations but may change with the change in the environment. As per the case, there was use or rubber wheels in the hoists and they disabled the smooth movement of hoists on the carpets that were spread in the newly built hospital. Hospital had been built with the best available and featured services being the new one but there were many difficulties that were experienced by the nurses (Gunningham & Johnstone, 1999). Based on the changing requirements and the needs of the situations, there should be alterations and modifications that should be done in the safety & health settings. In the scenario given, the hospital could take the actions for replacing the carpets that are not acting as a difficulty for the movement of hoists. Or the hospital authorities could replace the rubber wheels with that of some other material wheels. This would only be possible when the systems, policies and practices would be monitored, reviewed and evaluated on regular intervals resolving the issues. It is also sure that when the monitoring and control of the processes is done in time and as per the regular intervals then surely each and every member associated with the health and social care settings would be able to stay healthy, fit and fine.

3.2 Analyse the effectiveness of health and safety policies and practice in the workplace in promoting a positive health and safety culture.

The policies and the practices that are developed and implemented at the workplace should be made effective. This would surely help in the promotion of positive safety & health culture. This is due to the reason that when these are implemented then surely all kinds of risks, problems and issues arising are resolved at the earliest. Above all the staff working for this safety and health settings is trained and equipped with the skills and competencies. This would help the staff in following and implementing their duties and responsibilities well ahead in time. The specific and special needs service users will be provided with a lot of facilities and benefits as per their requirements. They will help in developing systematic and regulated health and safety work place and healthy work culture and environment which will promote health, safety and wellbeing of all the individuals at workplace. There should be clear and efficient guidelines and instructions to all in performing their duties well. There should be a continuous system that could easily monitor and control the processes and functions at the workplace for the health and safety of the staff and patients. Responsibilities, roles and profiles of each and every individual must be known to all so that they perform their duties and instructions well. The effectiveness of the policies and practices would help in the creation and growth of the healthy, safe and secure work environment for the staff working for the health and social care setting. This would also ensure the safe and secure living environment for the various service users.

3.3. Evaluate own contributions in placing the health and safety needs of individuals at centre practice.

The staffs working for the health and social care settings have to abide by the respective duties and responsibilities well. This could easily be explained with the help of Gibbs Reflective Cycle. The stages as descried in Gibbs Reflective Cycle are: Description of the event, feelings associated with it, evaluation of the situation, analysis on what could be done and finally concluding on what will be done and making the action plan on it on what has to be done for resolving it. This explains and gives the understanding of one’s own contributions that one should render for the working to become effective at the health and social care settings. There is an urgency that the reason for the occurrence of a situation in a specific way has to be studied and understood. This has to be made understood as why such things occur in a specific way. Then based on the understanding of the situation, the evaluation of the same has to be done. Evaluation will help in concluding of the situation. The contribution would be developing the health and social care place to be the best place that is understood, evaluated and resolved well and creating the best and healthy work environment at health and social care settings (Lippin et al, 2000). Health and Safety at workplace of health and social care would be ensured when the staffs would ensure that there is clarity in their roles and principles, rules, policies and practices are being followed as per the assigned and required legislations and policies. These health and safety legislations have to be studied, monitored and reviewed at regular intervals so that changes are introduced enabling a healthy work environment at workplace. This would make the health and safety at priority to be maintained at workplace. There should be a strict compliance of the legislative and health and safety policies. The culture at health and social care workplace has to be maintained effectively. Finally it could be said that each and every individual has to contribute and effectively follow and implement the set system, policies, practices and procedures so that the safety and health at workplace is ensured (Shannon et al, 1996).

Conclusion

The dilemmas that exist among the care workers in performing their duties, responsibilities and the services have to be cleared and resolved. Effective and correct information has to be spread and delivered or communicated to the staff working at health and social care so that they perform their duties well and avoid risks.

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