Author: Mick Hartley

that it had became a centre of excellence for the treatment of some of them. They'd identified about 140 different autosomal recessive disorders among local children: he estimated that a typical district would see 20 to 30.

There are indications that the rate of cousin marriages is decreasing. A BBC report from a year ago:

The number of people in Bradford's Pakistani community who have married a cousin has fallen sharply in the past 10 years, a study suggests. Higher educational attainment, new family dynamics and changes in immigration rules are thought to be possible reasons.

Juwayriya Ahmed married her cousin in 1988. The 52-year-old teacher says her children once asked her how she and their father met.

"I was laughing at them. I said I didn't really meet him. My parents took me to Pakistan and my dad said you're going to marry this person. And I sort of knew who he was, but the first time I met him properly was at the wedding," she says.

"My kids said that was disgusting. And then they told me, 'Don't you dare make us do anything like this.'"

Ten years ago researchers studying the health of more than 30,000 people in Bradford found that about 60% of babies in the Pakistani community had parents who were first or second cousins, but a new follow-up study of mothers in three inner-city wards finds the figure has dropped to 46%.

The original research also demonstrated that cousin marriage roughly doubled the risk of birth defects, though they remained rare, affecting 6% of children born to cousins.

"In just under a decade we've had a significant shift from cousin marriage being, in a sense, a majority activity to now being just about a minority activity," said Dr John Wright, chief investigator of the Born in Bradford research project.

"The effect will be fewer children with congenital anomalies."

It's in the right direction, but a drop from 60% to 46% is hardly a major shift.

Still, whether enforced by law or allowed to change as social customs change, it's at least welcome news that the subject's now being talked about.

style=”font-size: 11pt”>What’s astonishing about this is how quickly it’s happened. In a few short years, safeguarding has been repurposed as a species of prejudice, based not in genuine concern but prejudice against LGBT people. The word “trans” is akin to fairy dust, sprinkled in the eyes of credulous people — and the effects are already becoming apparent.

The rights of children to be protected from sexual predators has been trumped by the new trans cult. Janice Turner, back in August:

The oldest and gravest homophobic slur, the justification for Section 28, was that gay men can’t be trusted around children. This myth was rightly demolished, yet since then a collective guilt has tipped the scales the other way. Anyone who raises safeguarding concerns about LGBT groups or individuals risks being called a bigot.

Ever since the T was added to the LGB.

ms have now surfaced on Arabic and regional media that while he is alive, Qaani is being investigated by the IRGC, of which his Quds Force is part, on suspicion of involvement in Israeli intelligence infiltration and of playing a part in Israel’s assassination late last month of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah….

On Thursday, Sky News Arabic reported that Qaani, in the course of interrogations by the IRGC, had a heart attack and was rushed to a hospital. The report also said Qaani’s chief of staff, Ehsan Shafiqi, is under scrutiny.

All the reports remain unconfirmed, and none could be independently verified.

Senior Iranians, at the heart of the regime, secretly working with Israel? Or Tehran getting paranoid and flailing around to find a scapegoat for the collapse of their precious Hezbollah?

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North Korea’s ruling party has ordered an expansion of weapons production and export plans for the fourth quarter to meet Russia’s military demands. The regime is implementing an emergency strategy to quickly meet Russia’s requests for ammunition for the Ukraine war and double its existing weapons production.

A source in North Korea told Daily NK on Tuesday that the Central Military Commission “issued emergency tasks for the fourth-quarter arms production and export to the Defense Ministry Department, the Second Economic Committee and major enterprises of the defense industry through Order No. 61351 issued on Oct. 1.”

Accordingly, on Oct. 2, the Ministry of Defense immediately began implementing the Central Military Commission’s order to strengthen cooperation with Russia by quickly securing the total amount of ammunition exports….

“The Central Military Commission mentioned in the latest order that it also hopes to secure strategic technology support to strengthen the nation’s self-defense power,” the source said. “It revealed the goal of taking the development of the nation’s own defense industry to the next level in the long term by adopting advanced technology through military cooperation with Russia and greatly increasing the localization rate.” 

He added: “The Defense Industry Department told related workplaces that the Central Military Commission’s order ‘goes beyond simply increasing arms production – it’s an important, even critical, chance to strengthen the autonomy of the nation’s defense economy and secure outside money to develop our defense industries.'” 

30868386239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>October 11, 2024

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invokes Holocaust comparisons, the normal thing to do is to challenge them. At the BBC, the normal thing to do is to thank them for coming on the programme. This is a disgrace.”

It's a familiar feature of Islamist advocacy, to accuse the Jews of precisely what they themselves are guilty of….believing that "they have exceptional rights to the whole region".

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conforming kids who've been deluded into thinking they've benn born in the wrong body. Encouraging them to go through a normal puberty may now be criminalised…

ate practices of faith and ritual. Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, proclaimed the movement as a form of emancipation: “We are a people – one people.”

In their ancient homeland: Before a century-long campaign of erasure, it was widely known and understood that the Jewish people were only ever collectively connected to one land – the land of Israel. The Jews have been exiled and have lived in many places around the world. But as a people and a nation, they have only ever been connected to one land that would make sense as a sovereign nation-state. The Jews have been repeatedly exiled from this land, but they never ceded it. To emerge with their own nation-state, in their ancestral homeland, with their revived ancient language, they had to decolonize themselves from numerous empires – Roman, Islamic, Ottoman, British, to name a few. In that, Zionism is the world’s oldest, most persistent and most successful decolonization movement.

The enemies of Israel, notably the Islamist Iranian proxies of Hamas and Hezbollah, know perfectly well what Zionism is, and know that it conflicts with their vision of Islamic supremacism in which no Jews are permitted. In which to put it more bluntly, all Jews must be killed. It's an existential struggle now, Zionism.