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New Jersey teachers union condemns parents as 'extremist' in new ad

Anders Hagstrom
New York Post
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:15 UTC
new jersey school board ad
© NJNEAThe ad features clips of parents arguing over school-related topics.
A New Jersey teachers union condemned parents who confront school officials at school board meetings as "extremist" in a new advertisement this week.

The New Jersey chapter of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in America, posted the short ad on YouTube. The ad flips back and forth between colorful photos of teachers with students and black-and-white photos of parents, arguing that the latter are trying to fuse politics with education.

"When extremists start attacking our schools, that's not who we are," the video says. "People who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else."

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Data shows number of low-income audits could triple as IRS grows

Darlene McCormick Sanchez
The Epoch Times
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
IRS HQ
© Samira Bouaou/The Epoch TimesThe Internal Revenue Service Headquarters Building in Washington on Sept. 19, 2018.
The IRS audited 197 low-income families for every high-wealth family in 2019, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) — a number that some experts expected to climb under an IRS turbocharged with more money and manpower.

Over the next decade, the Democrat's new "Inflation Reduction Act" will provide the IRS with 87,000 new agents and $80 billion in funding, with nearly $46 billion earmarked for enforcement.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the tax and spend bill is projected to bring in $203.7 billion in revenue from 2022 to 2031.

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Red Flag

What's behind the surge in America's youth crime?

Robert Bridge
RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:08 UTC
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© Getty Images / Riou
A disturbing trend is on the rise in the US, where violent crimes are being perpetrated by some of the youngest members of society. But given the political divisiveness that has fractured the nation, pinning down blame for this phenomenon is no easy task.

Philadelphia is popularly known as the 'City of Brotherly Love' but murder statistics tell a different tale. In the school year of 2020-2021, 753 public school students in this Pennsylvania city of 1.5 million people were shot by their fellow classmates. Police statistics show that through mid-November, 31 fatal shooting victims were under the age of 18 - more than in all of 2020 and triple that number from 2015. At the same time, 30 people under the age of 18 have been arrested for homicides in 2021 - six times the figure of 2019.

Heartbreaking as it is to see children become the victims of violent crime, equally unsettling is the sheer barbarity of the offenses they themselves are accused of committing.
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Turkish airstrike kills three Syrian soldiers - media


RT
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:58 UTC
Jets
© Nedim Enginsoy/APTurkish fighter jets
Turkish airstrikes killed three Syrian soldiers in the countryside near Aleppo on Tuesday, Syria's SANA news network reported. Syrian forces responded by striking Turkish military sites, causing an unknown number of casualties, the outlet said.

Three soldiers were killed in the strikes and six others wounded, SANA reported, citing military sources. According to these sources, Syria's armed forces "responded to the aggression, targeting the occupation sites and destroying them, causing human and material losses."

Several sites belonging to Turkish-backed anti-government militants were also hit in retaliation, the report continued:
"With the intensification of the provocations practiced by the Turkish regime and the repeated attacks on different areas of Syrian territory, we affirm that any attack on any military point of our armed forces will be met by a direct and immediate response on all fronts."
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Putin fears Jewish death curse - ex-Ukrainian official


RT
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:50 UTC
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© Warner Bros. Pictures/screenshot'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'
Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely afraid to attack the city of Dnepr due to a threat that he will be cursed to death through an ancient Jewish ritual, a former Ukrainian official claims.

In an interview on Friday with the news website Novoye Vremya, Gennady Korban said he had threatened in July to place the curse on the Russian leader if he attacks the city.
"Pulsa diNura is a complicated, difficult procedure. It may have contributed in some way in the sense that so far they have not struck Dnepr. I knock on wood not to jinx it, God forbid, but this is how it is."
Pulsa diNura, roughly translated from Aramaic as 'lashes of fire', is a ritual that is attributed to an old Kabbalistic text, though scholars believe the term was not used in the sense of a curse invoked by man.

Comment: Beware Harry Putin...!!!

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Compassion: 9/11 victims' families appeal to US over seized Afghan funds - "belongs to the Afghan people and the Afghan people alone"


RT
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:09 UTC
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"This is their money, not ours," they wrote in a letter about billions of dollars frozen by Washington

Dozens of families whose loved ones were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack have asked President Joe Biden to ensure that billions of dollars in Afghan funds frozen by the US cannot be used to cover claims for damages against the Taliban.

"Any use of the $7 billion to pay off 9/11 family member judgments is legally suspect and morally wrong," they said in a letter sent to the White House on Tuesday. Some of the signatories have filed for compensation, but don't want to be awarded money they believe "belongs to the Afghan people and the Afghan people alone." Politico was the first media outlet to report the contents of the correspondence.
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How to go after the Big Science Cartel and actually win

J Scott Turner
RealClearScience
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:50 UTC
Rand Paul
© Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times/APUS Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky)
On 29 July 2022, three Republican US Senators (Rand Paul, KY; Ted Cruz, TX; Richard Burr, NC) asked the Director of the National Science Foundation to provide information on a variety of concerns, ranging from how decisions on funding research grants are made, to how the NSF handles political conflicts of interest among the scientists it supports.

Good for them. Since its founding in 1950, the NSF has drifted far from its original mission and vision: to support basic research in universities. Among the aims was to insulate the process of scientific discovery from meddlesome politicians. No more: the NSF has harnessed itself to blatantly political aims, from the dubious "greening" of our society and nation, to the toxic agenda of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion". The Senators are right to lift the lid on these shenanigans. They are wasting taxpayers' money.

That said, the Senators are barking up the wrong tree. The NSF, as ripe a target as it might seem, is comparatively a small part of a bigger problem of corruption of science. Here is my humble advice to the Senators about what to target.
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More human skeletal remains found at Lake Mead as water levels continue to recede

Stephen Sorace
Fox News
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:31 UTC
human remains lake mead
© Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty ImagesA rusted metal barrel, near the location of where a different barrel was found containing a human body, sits exposed on shore during low water levels due to the western drought at the Lake Mead Marina on the Colorado River in Boulder City, Nevada, on May 5, 2022.
Fifth set of human skeletal remains found as drought conditions continue

Another set of human skeletal remains was discovered at drought-stricken Lake Mead on Monday - the fifth set of remains recovered since May and the third to be found at the lake's Swim Beach area.

National Park Service (NPS) rangers set up a perimeter in the Swim Beach area of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada to recover the remains after responding around 8 p.m. to a report of the grim finding, the NPS said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's dive team assisted in the recovery. Officials said that the Clark County Medical Examiner has also been contacted.
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Meta steps up information control ahead of US elections


RT
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 23:13 UTC
meta sign
© AFP / Justin Sullivan
Facebook's parent company is imposing strict controls on information related to the upcoming midterm elections.

Social media behemoth Meta is beefing up its information-control tactics as the US heads into the 2022 midterm elections, tightening rules on voting misinformation and advertising. The changes were announced in a blog post on Tuesday.

The company will ban new political, social and electoral issue ads during the last week before the election, ensuring no "October surprises" - factual or otherwise - will disturb the information ecosystem. Editing existing ads will also be forbidden, and ads encouraging people not to vote or questioning the legitimacy of the results will not be permitted.

Comment: More from The Washington Times:
Meta President Nick Clegg wrote that the social media titan has hundreds of people spread across 40 teams focused on the U.S. midterms. Mr. Clegg is a former U.K. deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats who handles Meta's interactions with governments around the world.

"Our teams fight both foreign interference and domestic influence operations, and have exposed and disrupted dozens of networks that have attempted to interfere with U.S. elections," Mr. Clegg wrote on Meta's blog. "We've banned more than 270 white supremacist organizations, and removed 2.5 million pieces of content tied to organized hate globally in the first quarter of 2022."
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"Our rationale for this restriction period remains the same as 2020: in the final days of an election, we recognize there may not be enough time to contest new claims made in ads," Mr. Clegg wrote. "This restriction period will lift the day after the election and we have no plans to extend it."


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Tomato shortage emerges in drought-stricken Californian as ketchup prices soar

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:20 UTC
california drought map
Days ago, we said the next food insecurity problem that may impact Americans' eating habits could be an emerging potato shortage. Now there appears to be another issue: Tomatoes are getting squeezed, and risks of a ketchup shortage rise as a severe drought batter California's farmland.

California accounts for a quarter of the world's tomato output. The worst drought in 1,200 years has forced farmers to abandon fields as crops turn to dust amid a water crisis.

Comment: This is only the beginning of the shortages we're about to see around the world. While asking Americans to go without ketchup is like asking other humans to go without water, wait until true essentials start running out.

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