NY governor-murderer accused of sexual assault

 If they can't get this psychopath for the murder of nursing home residents perhaps, at least they can get him for this.

Cuomo advisers told state health officials to alter public report on nursing home COVID-19 deaths

The Washington Examiner

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's advisers allegedly convinced state health officials to alter a July 2020 report on nursing home resident fatalities.

The July 2020 report focused only on residents who died inside long-term care facilities, excluding those who died in a hospital after becoming sick in a nursing home, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge on the matter.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cuomo-senate-strip-pandemic-powers

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/andrew-cuomos-lies-keep-piling-up

Cuomo accuser says N.Y. governor groomed her in an attempt to sleep with her

One woman accusing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment is speaking out for the first time on camera. In an exclusive interview with "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell, Charlotte Bennett describes working in his office and how she believes he attempted to groom her.

Fact-checking George Galloway's stetements

In looking at one of the most divisive issues of the day I like to stick to the facts to the extent I can.

It is disapppointing to see my hero, George Galloway is not.

Muslims, sexual abuse of underage girls and George Galloway

In discussing events over the past few days - the sexual grooming trial in Leeds and the arrest of the controversial activist, Tommy Robinson I have tried to avoid resorting to labels and epithets because in discussing Jihadism and mass sexual abuse in Britain it does not help in the least to throw around labels like 'fascist', 'white supremacist', even 'far-right'.

That is playing dog whistle politics which both sides are capable of resorting to.

For that reason I was disappointed (if not surprised) to hear George Galloway, whom I admire for so many reasons describe Tommy Robinson as a 'jumped up little fascist' (elsewhere as a 'Hitler') 'whipping up hatred against brown people wth Muslim names'

 

George quite correctly points out to the double standards of Tommy Robinson and some of his allies. One of course, which seems to hold true is that he is a strong believer  in the zionist state of Israel.

Unfortunately, George is guilty of his own double standards.

The only fact that he brings to the table is that  "92 % of all sexual abuse against children committed by whites with English names" and that "93 % of poeple on sexual crime register are whites"

He points out that nowhere does Tommy or his friends mention the terrible abuse committed by the Catholic church.

I am not going to wade through everything Tommy Robinson has said to see if this is true but this from his greatest friend and supporter, Alex Jones might be an indicator:

As I like facts and statistics to reflect reality I decided to do my own bit of fact-checking.  What he said just didn't feel right.

Apart from the obvious point that from the normal liberal viewpoint to be consistent George's point about "whites" is just as racist as naming Muslims as sexual predators I have some other points.

George cites this statistic but does not indicate where it has come from. His 92 % figure does not seem to square with this official figure:

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence

I think that George's point is that only a very small number of sexual abuse cases are commited by 'brown people with Muslim names'.

I don't know how many cases of mass child abuse cases there have been in Britain but here are just TWO.

The first example comes from the BBC (which is pretty 'official' given their tendency to underplay the whole problem.

Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds

 

The second comes from a recent report relating to the current case in Leeds by the tabloid 'Mirror'.

Britain's 'worst ever' child grooming scandal exposed: Hundreds of young girls raped, beaten, sold for sex and some even KILLED

Authorities failed to act over 40 years - despite repeated warnings to social workers - with up to 1,000 girls, some as young as 11, abused in Telford
 ***

2,400 girls being abused in only two locations throughout the entire United KIngdom is no trifling matter.

 

If 8% of all sexual abuse cases are committed by non-whites and this figure is atl least 2,400 according to George Galloway what is the total figure? My brain is too addled to cope with the arithmetic, so I will have to take a more circuitous method. 

 

How many sexual offences against children are there in Britain?

 

According to this artice from Channel 4: 

"In 2012/13 there were 23,663 recorded sexual offences against children across the whole of the UK. Some 19,112 of those were recorded by police in England and Wales, including 6,296 rapes.

"Here’s how the list of crimes breaks down for England and Wales"

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-paedophiles-britain

 

That does not even begin to square with George Galloway's figures.

How many Muslims are there in the UK and where are they?

The other point that I would make is that while the number of "brown-skinned people with Muslim names" may be relatively low if taken over the whole of the United Kingdom the situation would be different in some areas where there are a larger concentration of Muslims in the population.

 It would be more helpful to look at the statistics for the localities were they to be available, which I doubt. 

These statistics show that the percentage of Muslims in the general population has gone up from 0.11 % in 1961 to 5.4% (over 3 million) estimated in 2014.

Census Year	Number of Muslims	Population of England and Wales	Muslim (% of population)	Registered mosques	Muslims per mosque
1961	50,000	46,196,000	0.11[40]	7	7,143
1971	226,000	49,152,000	0.46[40]	30	7,533
1981	553,000	49,634,000	1.11[40]	149	3,711
1991	950,000	51,099,000	1.86[40]	443	2,144
2001	1,600,000	52,042,000	3.07[40]	614	2,606
2011	2,706,000	56,076,000	4.83[41]	1,500	1,912
2014 (estimate)	3,047,000	–	5.4[citation needed]	1,750 (2015)[43]	1,741

"The settlements with large number of Muslims are Bradford, Luton, Blackburn, Birmingham, London and Dewsbury. There are also high numbers in High Wycombe, Slough, Leicester, Derby, Manchester, Leeds and the mill towns of Northern England. There are also relatively large concentrations in the Scottish cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh."

The top 20 local authorities in England and Wales with the highest percent of Muslims in 2011[44] were:

• London Borough of Tower Hamlets 34.5% 87,696
• London Borough of Newham 32.0% 98,456
• Blackburn with Darwen 27.4% 38,817
• City of Bradford 24.7% 129,041
• Luton 24.6% 49,991
• London Borough of Redbridge 23.3% 64,999
• Slough 23.3% 32,655
• London Borough of Waltham Forest 21.9% 56,541
• Birmingham 21.8% 234,411
• Leicester 18.6% 61,440
• London Borough of Brent 18.6% 58,036
• City of Westminster 18.3% 40,073
• Metropolitan Borough of Oldham 17.7% 39,879
• Pendle 17.4% 15,579
• London Borough of Enfield 16.7% 52,141
• Manchester 15.8% 79,496
• London Borough of Ealing 15.7% 53,198
• Kirklees 14.5% 61,280
• London Borough of Haringey 14.2% 36,130
• London Borough of Hackney 14.1% 34,727

However, in talking of Luton, where Tommy Robinson hails from:

"Since the 2011 census, Luton has become one of three white British-minority towns in the United Kingdom. It was announced in a report based on the census figures that along with Leicester and Slough, Luton was one of three towns outside London where the indigenous population was now a minority, making up only 45% of Luton's population. However, the town still has a white majority when non-British whites such as the Irish and Eastern Europeans are included" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom

Conclusion.

Whilst I have been forced to re-examine a lot of my assumptions, especially since the mass arrival of migrants in Europe since 2015 I try to stay away from racial stereostypes and to stick to the facts as I can ascertain them.

Just as I am disgusted by the zionism of many of the people talking about this and by their labelling of “leftists” and even “communists” I am equally disappointed (to put it mildly) by this distortion of the facts (and the making-up of bogus statistics by George Galloway.

I’m not that much for the court of public opinion but the fact that,as of now, there are 209 dislikes against 154 ‘likes’, seems to show that a majority of people have picked this up.

I would like to have seen George put aside his distaste for Tommy Robinson and admit that what has happened is a gross violation of legal process and democratic principles.  By delivering this diatribe George Galloway seems to be confirming the opinion of the Right that liberals, Leftists and Communists have no more than a skin-deep interest in democracy and the porcess of law.

It all goes to show just how febrile the atmosphere is and as they say “the first casualty of war is the truth”.


I hope that by being a world away and not directly embroiled in the events I can bring a little clarity.

The Betrayed Girls - The Rochdale Scandal

This documentary is from the BBC and so one can imagine what is left out of the picture. For all that it is shocking and has to be watched, especially for those of us living outside the UK and wanting some background to the arrest of Tommy Robinson.

One small and shocking detail was an interview with a concerned Labour MP who revealed that because she was concerned with the sexual abuse of girls, and because it involved Muslims she was somehow "right-wing".

In the meantime there seems to be angoing blackout on the proceeding of the trial in Leeds

The Betrayed Girls The Rochdale Scandal 2017 Documentary

Tania Billingsley speaks out about rape culture

Normally I would not pay this much attention were it not for the fact that this brave young woman, Tania Billingsley, has asked for name suppression to be lifted so that she could speak out and and address the wider issues of sexual violence.

There is also a wider issue - which is of oppression and violence in general and the rape of Mother Earth.

NZ PM John Key , FM Murray McCully (a known misogynist), and all those like him, show utter disdain for all this - and disdain for everything that has beauty in this world.

Woman at centre of Malaysian diplomat case speaks out

The woman at the centre of the Malaysian diplomat case has spoken out about what she feels is a mishandling of the case and a symptomatic breakdown in how New Zealand treats victims of sexual violence

3News,

9 July, 2014

Tania Billingsley, 22, has voluntarily had her name suppression lifted so she could share her thoughts on the case with media.

Sexual assault-accused Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail was a staff assistant for defence at the Malaysia High Commission in Brooklyn, Wellington, and is understood to hold a military rank of second warrant office.

He was arrested on May 9 and charged with burglary and assault with intent to rape after allegedly following Ms Billingsley home.

READ MORE: Ms Billingsley on how her case was handled and the wider issues it raises

"I guess that I'm someone who has something to say about this assault," says Ms Billingsley. "It happened to me and throughout this whole process, especially once it's become so public, my voice hasn't been heard. And I do, obviously, have a lot to say about this. I'm not just a bystander."

There can be no more important voice, but it's been one lost amongst the noise. So much has been written, aired, discussed, surmised about this case, but it's all at such an impersonal level. Nowhere have you heard the woman at the centre of it all.

She has made a considered decision. She wants you to know who she is and she wants you to know her story.

"Because I'm hoping that in revealing who I am and having a face to put to this alleged victim that I'll be able to help address some of the issues around sexual violence in this country."

But speaking out is not as straightforward as you might think. Complainants in sex attacks, for good reason, are granted automatic name suppression. Ms Billingsley – with her lawyer – had to apply to the courts to have that protection lifted so she could talk.

"In making myself too public I am making myself quite vulnerable to people who see this differently than me and also just being so visible is quite a scary thing."

Beginning with the May 9 attack, Rizalman was arrested and appeared in court the next day, charged with burglary and attempted rape.

Ms Billingsley says she first became aware of Rizalman's diplomatic status on May 11, which is also her birthday.

"So I spent the morning of it in the police station being told that he was a diplomat," she says.

Official meetings followed and just two weeks later a diplomatic escape route was taken – Rizalman left New Zealand.

"I found out that he was going to leave the day that he left. Up until then the police had been really great at keeping me informed, but even they didn't know what to tell me.

"I got this call and it was like, 'Yeah, you know we just found out that he's leaving today.'

"Obviously I was frustrated and I was angry because I had from the very beginning said that I wanted him to stay in New Zealand and be held accountable here."

Her wishes, though, counted for nothing, and Rizalman's controversial departure was kept quiet.

"[It was] as though what happened to me is just backdrop to the political drama instead of a really real and traumatic experience. Of course it's that thing of it's only become a real issue when it started to inconvenience them."

What transpired is Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully was briefed when the charges were laid and did nothing.

"It's just not appropriate for ministers to get involved too closely in this process," says Mr McCully.

But Ms Billingsley is upset the minister, in his weekly meetings with officials in those seven weeks before this became public, didn't ask them about the case.

"Clearly he doesn't know how to do his job properly," says Ms Billingsley. "He obviously doesn't take sexual assault as a serious thing to consider.

"I've heard that I have a formal apology on the way, but really the only apologies that I've heard have been them saying in the media that we have apologised."

She says she wants more than just an apology.

"I would take them actually committing to address rape culture and to being just more engaged in this stuff as an apology instead; if they want to swap an apology for them starting to deal with this stuff then I'm okay with that."

But if an apology is to come, whom does she want it from?

"McCully, I would like an apology from him, not just for what I feel is a really incompetent handling of the situation, but in his reaction, like the fact that even when asked directly about me and things like that, that he just brushed it off. He was so intent on trying to put responsibility and blame on everybody else that I just feel like he wasn't actually addressing and putting energy towards fixing what had happened. Obviously it was painful for me to watch that, seeing someone be so dismissive of something that's been so traumatic to me, but it is also embarrassing watching a grown man trying to put blame and talk his way out of what effectively is failure at his own job."

She says Mr McCully should resign.

Addressing a culture of violence

Ms Billingsley's quest for accountability doesn't stop with the Foreign Minister. She's outraged too at what she feels is dismissiveness of her case, from the very top.

"I just remember the first, the very first, thing I watched on it, and just seeing him looking bored and annoyed at having to be talking about it and just saying there's nothing that we can do pretty much. 'Oh it sucks but it is what it is.' And that's what I was getting. I don't feel from him any sincerity in his concern for me."

Her friends get it, both in terms of what happened and what the fallout represents. It's something that has been driving her activism since long before all this. Spend time with Ms Billingsley and her friends and you'll see they're part of a growing global conversation about rape culture.

"[Rape culture] is a society and culture within it that normalises and trivialises and, even in subtle and obvious ways, condones rape and sexual violence.

"I think quite clearly from the beginning the fact that as the person who has had to deal with this and who has from the beginning, I've had very definite views about what I've wanted and how I felt about this and it hasn't been listened to.

"The police have been good and they've definitely acknowledged in respect of where I'm coming from, but at a higher level there's been no attempt to really honour what I want.

"I just really think that we as a country, and especially the Government, needs to start not just reacting to sexual assault but working to prevent it."

No longer does she feel comfortable walking the streets of Wellington at night. Ms Billingsley can't talk about the man accused of her attack; the legal process has still to play out.

But already she has a capacity for thinking beyond herself, about victims of sexual violence. But her compassion extends also to the family of Rizalman.

"They're also victims in what has happened and I can't even imagine how hard the last couple of months have been for them. They're probably not watching this but I hope the message gets back to them that I'm thinking about them as well and hope they're being supported where they are because I think that people aren't really acknowledging that this has probably been horrible and life-changing for them as well as me."

3rd Degree approached Foreign Minister Murray McCully for an interview, but he declined, saying:  "I have publicly apologised to the young woman whose distress has been aggravated by the poor management of this case. The terms for a full inquiry into the matter are being finalised. I do not wish to compromise either the inquiry or any criminal proceedings by commenting further."

We also asked Prime Minister John Key and he also declined, with his office saying: "We will decline your request for the Prime Minister to appear on the programme. The legal implications of any pending court case precludes an appearance."

The following letter, from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade chief executive John Allen, was handed to Ms Billingsley a few hours before 3rd Degree went to air tonight: "I deeply regret the distress caused to the woman at the centre of this incident. I have apologised to her publicly and by letter. In dealing with this issue the Ministry fell short of the standards expected of us. Our focus now is on performing the rest of our role in this matter to a high standard and on learning from the lessons that come out of the independent inquiry."

From Malaysian media - 

Tania Billingsley to family of 

alleged Malaysian attacker: I 

know you are victims too

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Even as she vented her anger and frustration at the way the authorities were dealing with her sexual assault, New Zealander Tania Billingsley voiced sympathy with the Malaysian family of her alleged attacker.

Muhammad Rizalman Ismail

Malay Mail online

9 July, 2014

In an interview on New Zealand television today, the 21-year-old highlighted that she was not the only person to have suffered in the international storm following her alleged assault, pointing out that the family of junior envoy Muhammad Rizalman Ismail likely felt entrapped by the situation.

“They’re also victims in what has happened and I can’t even imagine how hard the last couple of months have been for them,” Billingsley said on the Kiwi TV3’s 3rd Degree programme today.

The military assistant, formerly attached to the Malaysian High Commission in Wellington, has a wife and three children.

“They’re probably not watching this but I hope the message gets back to them that I’m thinking about them as well and hope they’re being supported where they are because I think that people aren’t really acknowledging that this has probably been horrible and life-changing for them as well as me,” she was quoted saying on the New Zealand news agency’s website.

Billingsley made her first public appearance today, revealing herself as the woman at the centre of the sex case that had nearly unravelled New Zealand-Malaysia ties.

She said she chose to forego court protection of her identity because she was “frustrated” and “angry” with her country’s leaders for their lackadaisical response to her alleged assault.

She had accused Muhammad Rizalman of breaking into her home last May with the intent to rape her.

He was arrested by Kiwi police on May 9 on allegations of burglary and attempted sexual assault on Billingsley.

He was charged in a New Zealand court the next day for burglary and assault with intent to commit rape, with both charges carrying the maximum penalty of a 10-year jail term.

The junior envoy has since returned to Malaysia, taking advantage of the diplomatic immunity.

The Malaysian government however announced last week that he will be returning to New Zealand to be tried there.

There have been no further confirmation on the exact date of his return as he is currently undergoing mental and emotional evaluation tests, the New Zealand Herald reported last week, citing an unnamed doctor at the Tuanku Mizan Military Hospital in Malaysia.

The envoy would not be discharged until the medical examinations were complete, the doctor said.

His request for his return to be delayed until after Hari Raya was also denied by New Zealand authorities, according to media reports.