I’ve spent many weeks doing fieldwork in Tibet, sitting above these enormous, deeply incised Himalayan river systems and seeing firsthand just how geologically active this landscape is.
So spare me the climate-change grift every time a natural disaster strikes.
Catastrophic glacial outburst floods are not new. The 1981 Zhangzangbo GLOF released ~20 million m³ of water and debris into Nepal, with estimated peak discharge approaching 16,000 m³/s. The Himalayas experienced enormous GLOFs long before today's atmospheric CO₂ concentrations.
If it happened naturally in the past, we should expect it to happen naturally again in the future—regardless of atmospheric CO₂.
Turning a horrific loss of life into an immediate climate-change narrative without demonstrating that CO₂ caused this particular event isn't attribution. It's opportunism.
And the people exploiting tragedy to do it are grifters.
Pakistani Doctor Who Sexually Assaulted Student Nurse Then Blamed "Cultural Differences" Is Cleared To Treat Patients.
A married father-of-two who cornered a 21-year-old student nurse on a hospital ward, grabbed her breast and told her he wanted an affair was later cleared to work in the NHS after blaming "cultural differences" between Britain and his native Pakistan.
Dr Imran Qureshi, then 44, was working as a locum senior house officer at Trafford General Hospital in Davyhulme, Greater Manchester, in June 2015 when he followed the young student into a small room, closed the door and backed her into a corner.
He told her she was beautiful, asked whether she had a boyfriend and said he was unhappy in his marriage and wanted an affair. He then grabbed her right breast for several seconds.
When she pushed him away and called him a disgrace, he initially tried to laugh off what had happened before becoming aggressive.
Qureshi was convicted of sexual assault by a jury in 2016. He was given a 12-month community order and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for five years.
At a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing, Qureshi admitted making a "misjudgement". He said cultural norms were different in Britain and Pakistan and claimed he had failed to recognise the signs telling him to stay away.
He also claimed he had seen the student as sexually available because she had previously had boyfriends.
The tribunal chairman pointed out that Qureshi had been living in Britain long enough to understand the difference, particularly given that he was himself married.
The panel found that he had shown a lack of empathy and ignored the student's clear objections. He was suspended from practising for 12 months.
After restrictions were later relaxed and he completed a handful of locum shifts, a 2022 tribunal ruled that his fitness to practise was no longer impaired. The restrictions were lifted and Qureshi was free to return to treating patients.
This case raises uncomfortable questions about professional standards, safeguarding and the extent to which cultural explanations should carry weight when doctors breach the most basic boundaries of professional conduct.
For the young nurse involved, the consequences went far beyond a tribunal finding. She told the tribunal the incident left her shaken, affected her studies and damaged her ability to trust male colleagues.
#UKNews #CrimeNews #Trafford #Manchester
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
California has officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars.
These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California.
For example, if I film a hospice or a “learing center” with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them “fear” or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me.
This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for “immigrant support services.” Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it.
By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.
@TeaMilkNosugar1@DailyMail They've been completely rumbled over the 'no description' bullshit, so now they think 'stranger' will cut the mustard. They're thick, spineless shithouses 🤮
@Bbmorg It makes perfect sense to anyone with an IQ of over 60. And altering what he said slightly to try & put a different context to it is the behaviour of a slimy skidmark.
@mansman60@RealDannyTommo I wonder who everyone would rather leave their kids alone with - you or Danny 🤷♂️
A tough choice - NOT
You creepy little fuck
@PrisonPlanet It's not a mystery. It's racists making a mountain out of a molehill. I mean, what's a few dozen rapes of teenage girls between friends. Nothing to see here ..... said some dangerous, woke, moronic hypocrites who don't mind what's happening until it comes to their own back yard.
The British Government are going to court to specifically block the public from seeing the data showing crimes committed by migrants
That should tell you all you need to know
I cannot stop thinking about Jack Lees choosing to swim back into the rip for the third student.
On 4 June 2024, at Northcott Mouth in Cornwall, three young women were caught in a powerful rip current. Jack and his friend Zaid Anfoka helped two out of the rip. Jack then went back for the third.
He stayed with her for about 40 minutes until she escaped the current. All three women made it back. Jack, 20, did not.
I feel heartbroken by what his courage cost him. I think Britain should know his name (I wish more people did).
Had you heard Jack’s name before?
Nobody who knows anything about energy has ever claimed more North Sea drilling would lower bills. But it would:
Improve security of supply (esp of gas, all of which lands on UK shores).
Help balance of payments
Add to government revenues
Create/preserve well-paid skilled jobs
Reduce UK carbon footprint since, eg, gas brought onshore from North Sea generates 3 times fewer emissions than LNG
Given even E Miliband admits we’ll be using oil and gas for the foreseeable future, why not develop a bit more of it ourselves rather than importing more and more of both.