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March 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

Govt Funding of DEI Banned in This State…

On Tuesday, the Alabama state legislature passed a bill that defunds Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at public universities.

Now awaiting Republican Governor Kay Ivey’s signature, the bill could go into effect by October 1. Alongside public universities, it would strip funding from school boards and other government agencies pushing DEI initiatives.

The legislation also requires students to use restrooms associated with the biological sex rather than their gender identity and bans the dissemination of “divisive concepts” rooted in Critical Race Theory (CRT) and related ideologies, suggesting certain groups — principally white people — are “inherently responsible for actions committed in the past” or should “accept, acknowledge, affirm or assent to a sense of guilt, complicity or a need to apologize.”

Republican state Rep. Ed Oliver, one of the bill’s primary sponsors, said DEI initiatives “deepen divisions, set up race-exclusionary programs and indoctrinate students into a far-left political ideology.”

The Alabama legislation advances as the University of Florida is firing all DEI staff.

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On Tuesday, the Alabama state legislature passed a bill that defunds Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at public universities. show more
March 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News
UK

Ramadan ‘Hadiths of the Day’ Removed After Backlash.

Network Rail, the government body responsible for most of Britain’s rail infrastructure, has apologized for displaying ‘Hadiths of the Day’ in London’s King’s Cross Station during Ramadan.

A message on the busy station’s public bulletin board reading, “The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) [Peace Be Upon Him] said: All the sons of Adam are sinners but the best of the sinners are those who repent often,” was apparently the ninth such message to have been displayed since the start of Ramadan.

Network Rail initially defended the hadiths, insisting “King’s Cross station is made up of a diverse and multi-cultural workforce and at times of religious significance, messages such as these are displayed to celebrate the station’s diversity and inclusivity.”

However, despite Britain being a Christian country, at least constitutionally, no messages appear to have been displayed for Lent, which is currently ongoing.

Amid growing backlash from Christians, cultural conservatives, and secularists, Network Rail backed down, claiming: “We value the feedback of our passengers and while these messages were intended to celebrate the beliefs and backgrounds of some of our colleagues and passengers, we have removed them.”

They also claimed they would be “looking into” why hadiths were preached at station users rather than “general Ramadan celebratory messages.”

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Network Rail, the government body responsible for most of Britain’s rail infrastructure, has apologized for displaying ‘Hadiths of the Day’ in London’s King’s Cross Station during Ramadan. show more
March 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Immigration
News
UK

DEI Jobs ‘Costing Taxpayer at Least Half a Billion a Year,’ Says UK Govt.

Publicly-funded Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) roles in the United Kingdom are costing the country “at least half a billion pounds a year,” according to the Cabinet secretary responsible for business and trade.

Olukemi ‘Kemi’ Badenoch, raised partly in Nigeria and partly in the U.S., made the admission in an op-ed for the notionally right-wing Telegraph following a review of so-called Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) – the preferred term for DEI in Britain.

“The UK has seen an explosion of EDI roles in organisations,” she wrote. “Studies found that the UK employs almost twice as many EDI workers per head than any other country. This same analysis estimates that EDI jobs in our public services are costing the taxpayer at least half a billion pounds a year.”

She noted that, in the private sector, “employers are even inadvertently breaking the law under the guise of diversity and inclusion by censoring beliefs or discriminating against certain groups” — namely Christians, heterosexuals, and white people — “in favour of others.”

She also acknowledged the scandal involving an unlawful, anti-white recruitment policy at the Royal Air Force — for which no one was punished.

Badenoch built her reputation in Britain’s Conservative Party by criticizing race ideology, breaking out as a public figure by insisting that teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) and “white privilege” as fact in British schools was unlawful during the Black Lives Matter disorder of 2020.

However, no action was ever taken against schools disseminating such ideology, and she later refused to comment on the socialized National Health Service (NHS) pushing anti-“whiteness” training on staff.

In recent weeks, she posted a picture of herself wearing a hijab at a mosque in the Sharia-governed United Arab Emirates, claiming it was a symbol of “tolerance,” as her party was being accused of “Islamophobia.”

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Publicly-funded Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) roles in the United Kingdom are costing the country “at least half a billion pounds a year,” according to the Cabinet secretary responsible for business and trade. show more
March 20, 2024
Culture
News
Politics

RBG Awards Canceled After Late Justice’s Family Objects to Murdoch and Musk Presence.

The planned Washington, D.C., gala for the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award — set to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, and Sylvester Stallone — has been canceled, according to the Opperman Foundation, which was organizing the event. The cancellation comes after the family of the late Supreme Court Justice objected to Murdoch and Musk receiving the awards.

Objections to Murdoch and Musk being named as awardees were raised by Ginsburg’s children, James Ginsburg and Jane Ginsburg, as well as former Ginsburg clerk Trevor Morrison. The trio argued that the proposed honorees did not align with the principles espoused by the late Justice.

The initial focus of the award was to honor “an extraordinary woman” each year, a tradition from which the Opperman Foundation this year when it selected male honorees without conferring with the Ginsburg family. It remains unclear whether the selected honorees will still receive awards in the absence of the ceremony, as the foundation has made no further information available. The drama surrounding the awards caused the Library of Congress to dissociate itself from them, stressing its role as only the planned venue.

Ginsburg’s family primarily objected to the selection of Murdoch and Musk due to political reasons. Murdoch is the founder of NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News. Musk is known for his stalwart defense of free speech and promotion of right-wing causes. “I think she’d be appalled,” James Ginsburg said in an interview. “When you think about trying to create a more just society, which, of course, was mom’s ultimate goal, those are probably about the last names that would come to mind.”

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The planned Washington, D.C., gala for the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award — set to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, and Sylvester Stallone — has been canceled, according to the Opperman Foundation, which was organizing the event. The cancellation comes after the family of the late Supreme Court Justice objected to Murdoch and Musk receiving the awards. show more
March 20, 2024
Culture
News
Politics

Court Declares Bar Exam ‘Racist,’ Says Lawyers No Longer Need to Pass It.

In an effort to ‘diversify’ the legal profession, the Washington Supreme Court released two orders approving alternatives to the universal bar exam on Monday. According to the Court, the exam “blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law” and has “racism and classism written into the test itself.”

Spearheaded by Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis of the Washington Supreme Court and Dean Anthony Varona of the Seattle University Law School, a task force reevaluated traditional bar exam approaches after a year of pandemic-enforced changes. The task force’s report claims the exam “disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law, and the traditional bar exam is at best minimally effective for ensuring competent lawyers.”

The court orders gave the green light to alternatives such as the NextGen bar exam by the National Conference of Bar Examiners, set for summer 2026, which will have a reduced minimum passing score of 266. The court also approved three experiential learning options for both law school graduates and students, as well as APR 6 law clerks.

The new pathways involve a six-month apprenticeship for graduates under a qualified attorney and three mandatory standardized courses. Law students must complete 12 qualifying skills credits and gain 500 hours of work experience as a licensed legal intern. Law clerks would follow a similar path to law school graduate apprenticeships while also obtaining the required hours as interns.

Moving forward, the court will join efforts with the Washington State Bar Association to develop an implementation system and timeline, despite recent criticism of the association due to controversial remarks made by an executive member.

Critics are concerned the Court’s decision will result in under-qualified and less-than-capable candidates becoming lawyers. A number of top American universities that abandoned standardized test scores as entry requirements — also in the name of diversity — have since reversed their decisions.

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In an effort to 'diversify' the legal profession, the Washington Supreme Court released two orders approving alternatives to the universal bar exam on Monday. According to the Court, the exam “blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law” and has “racism and classism written into the test itself.” show more
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March 19, 2024
Crime
Culture
News
Politics
UK

Cops Target Comedy Under New Hate Crime Laws.

Scottish police are being instructed to target actors and comedians under new ‘hate crime’ laws. According to leaked police training documents, the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) law suggests that “threatening and abusive” material can be communicated “through public performance of a play.”

The new law consolidates several existing laws and creates a new offense — stirring up hatred against protected characteristics. These include age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and transgender identity.

The leaked training documents focus on “how might threatening and or abusive material be communicated.” These are “by: displaying, publishing or distributing the material, for example on a sign, on the internet through websites, blogs, podcasts, social media etc, either directly, or by forwarding or repeating material that originates from a third party, through printed media such as magazine publications or leaflets.”

The document states that “giving, sending, showing or playing the material to another person” can be done “through online streaming, by email, playing a video, through public performance of a play.”

“If this is genuine Police Scotland training material, it appears to be at odds with the legislation which excludes plays from its scope,” said Scottish Conservative shadow justice secretary Russell Findlay. “This revelation adds to widespread concerns about Humza Yousaf’s hate crime law and needs to be explained.”
The UK has a reputation for stringent and controversial ‘hate crime’ laws. Last year, police arrested a politician for supporting the right to preach the bible. Females objecting to ‘trans female’ police officers strip-searching them face citations for ‘hate.’ The UK Labour Party is also pledging to make ‘misgendering’ transgenders an imprisonable offense.
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Scottish police are being instructed to target actors and comedians under new 'hate crime' laws. According to leaked police training documents, the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) law suggests that “threatening and abusive” material can be communicated “through public performance of a play.” show more
March 19, 2024
Culture
News

Apparently the Word Homosexual’ is ‘Derogatory and Offensive’ Now.

In a revised Media Reference Guide, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) claims the term “homosexual” is “derogatory and offensive.”

The LGBTQ advocacy group described ‘homosexual’ as an “outdated clinical term,” claiming that its historical usage insinuates homosexuality is a disease or psychological disorder.

They further assert terms including “homosexual relations/relationship,” “homosexual couple,” and “homosexual sex” are leveraged by antagonists as tools to degrade LGBTQ people, their relationships, and their lifestyle.

In addition to ‘canceling’ the word “homosexual,” the group’s new guidelines also insinuate that terms like “gay” and “lesbian” are racist as they are “Eurocentric.” Instead, the new guidelines promote the term “same-gender loving.”

“Also known as SGL, this is a term used by some African American people as an Afrocentric alternative to what are considered Eurocentric, or white, identities like gay and lesbian. Coined by activist Cleo Manago in the 1990s, the term and its usage explicitly recognizes [sic] the histories and cultures of people of African descent,” the guidelines state.

The new guidelines received widespread criticism online, including from other homosexual groups. The homosexual group Gays Against Groomers (GAG) slammed the guidelines, stating: “An organization whose name literally stands for ‘Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’ has now come out and declared the word homosexual to be outdated, derogatory, and offensive. They have replaced the term with ‘Same-Gender Loving,’ completely erasing biological sex, gay people and the decades of progress we fought to achieve in this country.”

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In a revised Media Reference Guide, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) claims the term “homosexual" is “derogatory and offensive.” show more
March 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Immigration
News
UK

Major London Train Station Displays ‘Hadiths of the Day’ Throughout Ramadan.

King’s Cross, one of the busiest and most important railway stations in Sadiq Khan’s London, has been displaying ‘Hadiths of the Day’ on its main display throughout the Islamic month of Ramadan.

A picture of a screen on the station’s main concourse, displaying a quote with the text “All the sons of Adam are sinners but the best of the sinners are those who repent often,” has gone viral on X (formerly Twitter).

It is the ninth in a series of similar quotes, however. A ‘Hadith of the Day’ reading, “When Ramadan enters, the gates of Paradise are Opened,” was celebrated by the Islam Channel, among others. This message also urged Muslims who “need support” with their fasting to speak to station staff.

Many X users expressed misgivings about the messages and voiced extreme skepticism that similar Christian messages would be displayed during holidays such as Lent, Easter, and Christmas.

In the most recent national census taken in 2021, the share of London’s population recorded as ‘White British’ had fallen to just 36.8 percent.

Mayor Khan’s office has previously issued guidance suggesting official materials should not feature images of white families, stating they do not represent “real Londoners.”

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King’s Cross, one of the busiest and most important railway stations in Sadiq Khan’s London, has been displaying ‘Hadiths of the Day’ on its main display throughout the Islamic month of Ramadan. show more
March 18, 2024
Culture
Politics

WATCH: Kassam Announces Investigative Series into Democrat Hoaxster PAC ‘Meidas Touch.’

The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam announced an investigative series into the ‘Meidas Touch’ organization that continues to peddle a number of hoaxes against former President Donald J. Trump, including its most recent “bloodbath” hoax.

Kassam, speaking on Steve Bannon’s War Room, explained the group is closely linked to Hollywood leftists and hides much of its Democrat-linked dark money behind its Political Action Committee (PAC) status.

Nonetheless, The National Pulse has already started connecting the dots between major Meidas Touch-world figures, with the first stories dropping on Monday, March 18th.

To support this work, join The National Pulse, here. 

WATCH:

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The National Pulse's Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam announced an investigative series into the 'Meidas Touch' organization that continues to peddle a number of hoaxes against former President Donald J. Trump, including its most recent "bloodbath" hoax. show more
March 16, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

Big Tobacco Divests from Big Trans.

Altria Group, the owners of Marlboro cigarettes manufacturer Philip Morris USA, are dumping 35 million shares in AB InBev, the owners of Bud Light.

“As good stewards of shareholder capital, we consistently review options to unlock the value of our ABI investment, and we believe this is an opportunistic transaction that realizes a portion of the substantial return on our long-term investment,” said Altria CEO Billy Gifford.

AB InBev’s stock was damaged in 2023, both literally and figuratively, by Bud Light’s partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender activist invited to meet Joe Biden after his ‘Days of Being a Girl’ series on TikTok gained a substantial following.

The debacle led to increased scrutiny of AB InBev’s woke business practices, with footage of employees talking about the need to reduce the number of white and male employees during its #CheerstoDiversityAndInclusion campaign being recirculated.

Despite being dropped by the brand, Mulvaney appeared to emerge relatively unscathed from the debacle and was named to the ‘30 Under 30’ list by Forbes in November.

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Altria Group, the owners of Marlboro cigarettes manufacturer Philip Morris USA, are dumping 35 million shares in AB InBev, the owners of Bud Light. show more