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NY Times admits Ukraine's military morale is declining

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© AFP / Aris MessinisUkrainian servicemen run for cover amid a Russian shelling
Those willing to fight are left behind while the unwilling are drafted, according to the US newspaper

Kiev's "secretive and arbitrary" military recruitment, which leads to the drafting of soldiers who are unwilling to serve, is affecting the morale of the Ukrainian troops fighting against Russia, the New York Times has reported.

There are "signs, five grueling months into the war, that the sense of unity is fraying at the edges" within the Ukrainian military, the paper pointed out in a report on Monday.

Some soldiers are unhappy that they have done "long, hard service," while many others managed to stay away from service, it said.

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Fauci, Top Biden officials subpoenaed in lawsuit alleging they colluded with social media to suppress free speech

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Top-ranking Biden administration officials — including Dr. Anthony Fauci — and five social media giants have 30 days to respond to subpoenas and discovery requests in a lawsuit alleging the government colluded with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech "under the guise of combatting misinformation."

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Wednesday served third-party subpoenas on Twitter, Meta (Facebook's parent company), Youtube, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Schmitt and Landry on Tuesday filed discovery requests seeking documents and information from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Fauci, its director; White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre; Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy; and former Disinformation Governance Board executive director Nina Jankowicz.

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Survey: Student behavior among major reasons teachers are leaving their jobs

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In a survey conducted by Chalkboard Review, it was revealed that a vast majority of midwestern teachers that are leaving their jobs are leaving because of pay, students' behavior or progressive politics in the classroom rather than reasons like Covid-19 or school shootings, amongst other reasons.

The survey issued three preliminary questions and four main questions, with 615 K-12 teachers in the midwestern states of Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio responding.

Of those that included salary as a main reason for leaving their position, 319 teachers listed student behavior as their biggest reason to resign from their position, followed by 138 who said progressive political activity, and 134 who said that salary is insufficient.

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Of the responders with salary as an included primary reason, 319 of the 615 responders listed student behavior as their biggest reason to leave the classroom, followed by 138 for "progressive political activity" and 134 for "salary is insufficient".
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When pay is listed as an ancillary reason in contribution to another factor, the numbers shift dramatically. 447 of 615 responders listed unchecked student behavior as their primary reason for leaving the classroom. 128 listed "progressive political activity", while only nine listed parental harassment.
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© Chalkboard Review
Given this, it's beyond incredible that Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers and Becky Pringle of the National Education Association would cite Republicans' and parents' "politicization" of the classroom as the reason for the teacher shortage. It's not even a secondary or tertiary issue — it's forty-nine times less important to teachers than the behavioral crisis.

Furthermore, 356 of the 615 teachers reported that they were a member of a teachers union this previous year. It's not just non-union teachers that are reporting these issues.

I was surprised to see that only 21% of responders answered "yes" to returning to the classroom of the district if their complaints were reported to have been dealt with.
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In this first survey, I conclude that it's reasonable (at the very least) to cast extreme doubt on union and education advocacy organizations claiming that pay and parental harassment are the primary issues for teachers leaving.

When salary is listed as a contributing factor, 93.35% of Midwestern teachers claim that their resignation is due to student behavior and progressive political activity required in their classrooms.



Eye 1

France threatens air-conditioned shops to keep doors shut under penalty of a fine

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© Loic VENANCE / AFPA notice announcing air-conditioning inside, as the air temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius in the centre of Nantes, western France, on July 13, 2022.
Leaving the doors open when the air conditioning is on leads to "20 percent more consumption and... it's absurd," French Minister of Ecological Transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher told RMC radio.


Comment: There will be few small and medium businesses that could afford to blithely leave their doors open when energy prices have, in some cases, tripled. The only businesses that would float this logic are the super stores, and it's unlikely the government, that is usually in bed with these businesses, is going to fine them, and, even if they did, the fine would mean little to their profits.


The minister said there were also plans to restrict the use of illuminated signs.

"In the coming days, I will issue two decrees: the first will widen the ban on illuminated advertising, whatever the size of the city, between 1am and 6am", with the exception of airports and stations, Pannier-Runacher told the
Journal du Dimanche newspaper.


Comment: The energy 'crisis' apparently doesn't extend to airport advertising?


Comment: The government is often to seeking to 'educate' the public these days. In the not so distant past - the old normal - reeducation was often used humorously to refer to draconian government rule.

The totalitarian diktats began in earnest with the contrived coronavirus crisis, and now the government seeks another avenue to exert control over the minutiae of our everyday lives under the guise of the 'energy crisis'; this ominous oversight also serves to acclimatize people into thinking this kind of behaviour from the government is justified.

Notably the British government said itself recently that they hope the soaring cost of energy will 'naturally' cause people to use less. There was no mention on how this means its most vulnerable will be the ones who will be freezing in their houses this winter. And this was apparently just one of their many ingenious solutions to the looming rolling blackouts, that will actually be a direct result of their proxy war on Russia.


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Tim Pool goes to war with Twitter over 'groomer' controversy

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Journalist Tim Pool went to war with Twitter on Monday after the social media platform locked him out of his account for criticizing "groomers."

"Twitter just locked me out of my account lol. I don't care enough about twitter for the tweet to stay up so whatever. F*ck you twitter," Pool tweeted on Monday.

"The platform is so worthless I dont feel that any tweet I put up matters at all so idc to keep it up however I do think sh*tposting matters and I will keep sh*tposting," Pool said.

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Pistol

Cops shoot, arrest woman who opened fire at Dallas Love Field

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© KTVTA brief snippet of police audio said officers were responding to the active shooter situation at Dallas Love Field, but the shooter “is down.”
A 37-year-old woman opened fire at a Dallas airport Monday before she was shot by authorities and taken into custody, police said.

The 37-year-old woman, identified as Portia Odufuwa, went into a bathroom at Dallas Love Field airport and changed into the sweatshirt before exiting and opening fire at the ceiling just after 11 a.m. local time, Police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a press conference.

Odufuwa then was shot in the lower extremities by a responding officer, Garcia said. She was taken to a hospital for treatment.

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Oscar

Please God don't let you know WHO win the Nobel Peace Prize

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If you thought satire died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, think again. According to the bookies, the favourite to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize is the WHO. Yes, that's right, the organisation that initially told us COVID-19 was nothing to worry about - the Chinese had it completely under control. Then changed tack and said, no, actually, we should be worrying about it and we should all do exactly what China had done, i.e., lock everyone in their homes, even though that hadn't actually succeeded in containing the virus. But then, this is an organisation that is so beholden to the Chinese Communist Party it refuses to recognise the existence of Taiwan.

The only thing that could possibly be worse would be to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Anthony Fauci. Although it's a close call.

John Tierney in City Journal has suggested a more worthy recipient.

Comment: The Nobel Peace Prize is has been so degraded by past nominees and winners, it's become nothing more than a sad joke. They might as well give it to the WHO at this point. At least it will be good meme-fodder.

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Lawsuit: Chicago police misused ShotSpotter in murder case

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© AP Photo/Charles Rex ArbogastShotSpotter equipment overlooks the intersection of South Stony Island Avenue and East 63rd Street in Chicago on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. A lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday, July 21, 2022, alleges that Chicago police misused “unreliable” gunshot detection technology and displayed tunnel vision in investigating Michael Williams and charging him with killing a neighbor.
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges Chicago police misused "unreliable" gunshot detection technology and failed to pursue other leads in investigating a grandfather from the city's South Side who was charged with killing a neighbor.

Chicago prosecutors used audio picked up by a network of sensors installed by the gunshot detection company ShotSpotter as critical evidence in charging Michael Williams with murder in 2020 for allegedly shooting the man inside his car. Williams spent nearly a year in jail, and The Associated Press reported last year that a judge dismissed his case at the request of prosecutors, who said they had insufficient evidence.

The lawsuit filed by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University's law school seeks damages from the city for mental anguish, loss of income and legal bills for the 65-year-old Williams, who said he still suffers from a tremor in his hand that developed while he was locked up. It also details the case of a second plaintiff Daniel Ortiz, a 36-year-old father who the lawsuit alleges was arbitrarily arrested and jailed by police who were responding to a ShotSpotter alert.

Comment: See also: ShotSpotter: The all-knowing surveillance system that detects gunfire all across America


Pistol

3 dead, including gunman, in mass shooting in Langley, British Columbia

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© Jesse Winter/REUTERSThe shooting in Langley, British Columbia, appears to have targeted homeless people.
Three people, including the alleged gunman, were killed Monday in a mass shooting outside Vancouver, Canada, that appears to have targeted homeless people, authorities said.

Police said an unidentified gunman began shooting after 6 a.m. local time in multiple places in downtown Langley, about 30 miles southeast of Vancouver, local media reported.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police previously said they had a suspect in custody, and it's unclear if they were referencing the now-deceased gunman. Cops discovered the gunman wounded and shot him dead at the scene, police said in a statement.

Another victim of the gunman was left in critical condition and a second had serious injuries, authorities said.

The victims of the attack were found throughout the city, including one at a bus stop and another near a supportive housing unit. The gunman's and victims' names have not been released.

Sherlock

Staff shortages force Japanese train company to cancel 120 services, Covid infections blamed

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© KyodoPhoto taken on July 25, 2022 at Hakata Station in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka shows an advisory by Kyushu Railway Co. explaining that some limited express are to be suspended.
A railway operator in southwestern Japan says it will cancel 120 limited express train services because of a staff shortage caused by coronavirus infections.

Kyushu Railway Company, also called JR Kyushu, said on Monday that 38 drivers and conductors are unable to report to work because they have been infected or identified as close contacts of COVID-19 patients.

The company will cancel 100 services of the Sonic limited express between Hakata and Oita, and 20 services of the Kamome connecting Hakata and Nagasaki from Wednesday to August 5.

Comment: Similar staff shortages, and across various sectors, are being reported across much of the planet, and it appears largely in countries whose governments chose to enforce the nearly 2 years worth of lockdown; however, notably, Japan was one of the few countries that didn't officially lockdown. Its health service was also one of the few to sound the alarm on the risks of the experimental jabs: