If Sir Keir Himself had set out to sabotage his own leadership, he probably couldn't have done as remarkable a job as he did.
UK: Starmer suffers ‘unprecedented collapse’
in popularity, ‘more than any other prime minister
in modern history’
Are British citizens finally waking up to the shockingly bad leadership of the far-left Keir Starmer? The Labour party would not have attained power in the first place had it not been for the Conservatives’ betrayal of their constituency and the British people as a whole.
Since he took office in early September, Starmer has bulldozed his way to “unprecedented” unpopularity in record-breaking time. His downfall started almost immediately, with dissension in his own ranks. Some of his questionable actions: wasting taxpayer money to fund open-door immigration policies in a downward trending economy; a secret “Brexit reset” plan; training the military to use them as “peacekeepers” against the British population after widespread protests and riots; and his “state police” threatening to crack down on citizens outside Britain who oppose government views.
Starmer is downright scary. His “unprecedented” collapse in popularity is a first step. Those who value free societies can hope that he gets the boot as quickly as possible.
Keir Starmer suffers ‘unprecedented’ collapse in popularity for new PM
by Millie Cooke, Independent, October 29, 2024:
Sir Keir Starmer’s approval rating has collapsed more significantly after winning an election than any other prime minister in modern history, a new poll has shown.
Following the July election, which saw the Labour Party win a landslide majority of 174 seats, the prime minister approval rating reached a high of plus 11.
But by October, just days before Rachel Reeves’ Budget on Wednesday, new polling from More in Common showed that the prime minister’s personal approval rating has fallen to -38 – a net drop of 49 points.
His rating is now lower than that of former prime minister Rishi Sunak, which now sits at -31 following an increase of six points since he lost the election….
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Second Japanese high court rules lack of
same-sex marriage protections unconstitutional
Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday ruled that the government's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage was against the country's constitution, marking the second court to do so.
The court said the Japanese government's failure to protect same-sex marriage had "no rational basis" and has become a form of "legal discrimination based on sexual orientation."
So, if your sexual orientation is one of pedophilia, or bestiality, does that mean they have to be respected. Should a pedophile be able to marry, or adopt a small child. Should a man be able to have sex with his goat, or a woman with her dog?
The court cited Article 14 of the Constitution, which declares that everyone is equal under the law, and a paragraph of Article 24 stating that laws on marriage "shall be enacted from the standpoint of individual dignity and the essential equality of the sexes."
Wednesday's ruling follows another by the Sapporo High Court in March, which backed a lower court's 2021 ruling that the lack of same-sex marriage protection violated Article 14.
The Sapporo ruling also ruled the wording of the paragraph from article 24 could be interpreted to guarantee marriage for same-sex couples, countering the government's argument that the language excluded them.
"The degree of social acceptance for granting (same-sex couples) the same protection as heterosexuals has heightened considerably," Presiding Judge Sonoe Taniguchi said in her ruling, according to Kyodo News.
The plaintiffs took their case to the High Court after a Tokyo District Court in November rejected damages against the government while suggesting that the topic was one more suited to be resolved by the Japanese legislature.
The court, however, rejected the plaintiff's call for $6,500 in compensation from the government for not protecting same-sex marriage.
No court has approved financial compensation for plaintiffs in cases challenging the lack of same-sex marriage protection.
Taniguchi said in the ruling that the government could not be found liable to compensate plaintiffs as the Supreme Court has yet to rule on protections for same-sex marriage.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said during a press conference that introducing a same-sex marriage system "concerns the fundamentals of people's lives and is closely related to each parson's view of the family."
Facebook execs suppressed Hunter Biden laptop scandal
to curry favor with Biden-Harris admin: bombshell report
The new details — contained in an interim report by the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the weaponization of government — are emerging as former President Donald Trump leads in polls ahead of the Nov. 5 election and as his allies urge a house-cleaning at the FBI and possible new regulations or antitrust actions to punish and restrain platforms like Facebook.
“FBI tipped us all off last week that this Burisma story was likely to emerge,” an unidentified Microsoft employee wrote on Oct. 14, 2020, the day The Post published the first in a series of bombshell stories on the Biden family’s foreign dealings, according to the congressional report.
Internal Facebook communications, including a chat log, show that employees quickly discounted The Post’s reporting because it was the “[e]xact content expected for hack and leak.”
“Right on schedule,” another Facebook employee concurred.
“Obviously, our calls on this could colour [sic] the way an incoming Biden administration views us more than almost anything else…,” Facebook’s then-vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote on the same day to vice president of global public policy Joel Kaplan.
The Post spent nearly a month verifying the authenticity of laptop files ahead of their publication, though it’s unclear to what extent the FBI was aware of that work as it prepared its prebuttal.
The FBI has possessed Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop since December 2019 and knew that files cited by The Post in its coverage came from a Delaware computer repairman and not the Kremlin — but, after preemptively discrediting the world exclusive to Big Tech, the FBI kept silent publicly as 51 ex-intelligence officials suggested and then-candidate Joe Biden outright alleged that the files came from Russia.
The Post’s reporting showed that Biden, while vice president, interacted with international business associates of his son Hunter and brother James — including in countries where he helped steer US policy, such as China and Ukraine.
The reports were widely, if belatedly, corroborated by other news outlets and the files were even used by federal prosecutors in court — but only after Biden defeated Trump in November 2020 by narrow swing-state margins, which some Republicans say was in part due to the cloud of suspicion over the laptop.
Repairman-turned-whistleblower John Paul Mac Isaac provided the laptop, which Hunter failed to retrieve, to the FBI in December 2019, believing it had significant information about international corruption. He later provided copies of the same files to The Post.
Congressional Republicans accuse the FBI and tech platforms of collaborating to defeat Trump in the last election — a perception that social media company employees were aware of at the time.
“[W]hen we get hauled up to [Capitol] [H]ill to testify on why we influenced the 2020 elections we can say we have been meeting for YEARS with USG [the US Government] to plan for it,” a Facebook employee wrote in a July 15, 2020, message published in the new report.
The FBI says it told some Twitter employees on the day of the first laptop story that the device was real, but that message did not appear to be widely circulated internally, and a similar acknowledgment has not emerged involving Facebook.
“[I]f the FBI’s intent was truly to help social media companies combat actual foreign influence operations, the FBI should have shared the single most important fact: the influence-peddling allegations in the Post story were based off of real, credible information, including information in the FBI’s possession,” says the Republican-drafted report, compiled under subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
“The FBI failed to do so. While the FBI eventually conceded that it had no indication that the allegations in the Post story were Russian disinformation — only after an FBI agent mistakenly revealed to Twitter that the laptop was ‘real’ — the FBI still withheld the fact that it had seized and authenticated Hunter Biden’s laptop months prior.
“As a result, Twitter and Facebook continued to censor the most significant news story of the election cycle, limiting the reach of allegations of Biden family corruption and ultimately benefitting the Biden-Harris campaign.”
The report blasted the FBI — led then, as now, by Director Christopher Wray — as other congressional Republicans fault the bureau’s role in investigating alleged Iranian hacking of Trump’s campaign in this election.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) denounced on Sunday in a post to X “the FBI’s deep corruption regarding foreign election interference from Iran targeting President Trump” and alleged “a corrupt coverup” — a message retweeted by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
Trump allies also remain furious about the FBI’s hard-charging and leaky investigation of Trump’s alleged links to Russia in the 2016 election — which turned up no evidence of a conspiracy after dominating more than half of Trump’s term of office — and the bureau’s role in a pair of unprecedented criminal prosecutions of the former president for allegedly mishandling national security records and challenging his 2020 loss to Biden.
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