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Colorado teacher forced to undergo gender ideology re-education training for giving a student detransition information

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Colorado Public School teacher Phil Vagos was forced to undergo gender ideology re-education training after providing detransition information to a student.

The Daily Caller reports that in May of 2021, Vagos received an email from one of his students, a biological female who identifies as transgender, asking for "an extended semester" in order to pass the class. Vagos helped the student attain a passing grade by removing some "zero credit assignments" and closed the email exchange with a cautionary note about the transgender trend that has captured many of America's youth.

Vagos, a Jefferson County Public School teacher, wrote "And as much as I don't want to interfere in anything that isn't my business, given the PS of the email I thought it might be helpful for me to provide a link regarding the transitioning process that has become a recent trend among young people in the United States. I typically wouldn't do this, although you did mention that you are using an alternate name and gender outside of your parents' presence, which tells me that this might not be the result of a consensus of agreement between you and them."

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Syringe

Is Tucker Carlson a "mainstream media propagandist"?

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Full-time Twitter performer and empire exposer Caitlin Johnstone is on Substack where she publishes almost a short piece a day. Sometimes she hits targets, other times she shoots blindfolded. Some of her pieces are built on facts and evidence, while others are ad hominem attacks, ideological assumptions, and all-or-nothing tribal missives. Sometimes they're a mix of all of the above.

You won't read much about other individuals here on this Substack unless they're part of the global cabal terrorizing humanity, but her very recent attempt to paint Tucker Carlson as a media "propagandist" who unleashed a "psychotic rant" about China to "manufacture consent for war" is so littered with false assertions it necessitates some remarks.

Her title laughably claims Carlson is "as much a propagandist as anyone in the Mainstream Media." One of Carlson's recent monologues paints China as an emerging powerhouse that has been busily buying economic influence if not financial servitude of nations around the world. While using some hyperbolic language, most of what he argues is based on fact.

China's belt and road initiative is a massive geopolitical strategic long-game of buying goodwill around the world rooted in China's desire to expand to other hemispheres of influence, and secure natural resources for their industries and supply chains. They are not busily doing this for compassionate and ethical reasons, and Carlson's assertion that this is "colonizing" other nations is not hyperbole. They are planting seeds of proliferation that all smart nations do that seek expansion, starting with state investment via private entities and loans, which will later be leveraged in any manner China desires, even militarily.

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Teachers and parents in Glasgow sex education protest over 'pornographic' lessons in schools

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© Daily RecordAround 200 people took part in the city centre protest.
Worried campaigners have demanded a ban on questionnaires asking intimate questions on the sex lives of teenagers being distributed in schools and a rethink on "inappropriate" content being used in sex education classes.

Hundreds of campaigners took to the streets of Glasgow to protest about 'pornographic' sex education lessons and surveys in schools.

Parents, teachers and pupils gathered in the city centre demanding a ban on the questionnaires being distributed to senior students.

They say cartoons displaying graphic sex acts being shown to young people in classrooms, and were only introduced this year, the Daily Record reports

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Protest over living costs erupts in Ghana, police fire tear gas & water cannons to disperse crowds

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Ghana police fired tear gas and arrested more than two dozen protesters in the capital Accra on Tuesday after a demonstration over soaring living costs turned violent.

The West African nation, reeling from a pandemic-spurred economic slump and hammered by the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine, has seen inflation surge to more than 27 percent this month - the highest level in almost two decades.

President Nana Akufo-Addo is under increasing pressure to address the higher cost of food and fuel.

Clad in red and black, hundreds of protesters gathered in Accra, chanting songs and holding placards that read "We're suffering Akufo-Addo" and "The high cost of living will kill us".

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Dutch farmers protest gov'ts 'green' diktats by blocking supermarket distribution centres

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Dutch farmers angered by government plans that may require them to use less fertilizer and reduce livestock began a day of protests in the Netherlands on Monday by blocking supermarket distribution hubs in several cities.
Dutch farmers angered by government plans that may require them to use less fertilizer and reduce livestock began a day of protests in the Netherlands on Monday by blocking supermarket distribution hubs in several cities.

Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and KLM, the Dutch arm of Air France AIRF.PA, have advised travellers to use public transport, rather than cars, to reach the airport, as farmers' activist groups said on social media they planned to use tractors to block roads.

Several traffic jams were reported on highways in the east of the country and on ferry routes in the north, but none near Schiphol during the morning commute.

Comment: Footage of the protests over the past few days from Twitter:












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Profit before pilgrims

Once a destination immersing Muslim pilgrims in the experience of a common faith, unity and equality, management of the Hajj today runs on the engine of commercialization, wiping out centuries of tradition.
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© The CradleThe Hajj, a fundamental pillar of Islam, is slowly becoming inaccessible to millions of Muslims because of issues of cost and control in Saudi Arabia. Yet Iraqis manage a much larger annual pilgrimage with none of the fuss, and spades more hospitality.
Arab hospitality is said to be a legendary and integral part of the culture and customs, and can be defined as karam, or generosity. In the Arab context, the tenets of hospitality, such as welcoming and hosting a guest in one's abode, can be found in the traditions of the three Abrahamic faiths, but it is also rooted in pre-Islamic cultures and rituals associated with 'Bedouin Arab hospitality'.

For centuries, this was embedded and practiced in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

However, over the past several decades, Islamic hospitality in Mecca has "exceeded its religious and social boundaries," and headed toward "the economic aspect of hospitality," which now characterizes the experience of Hajj pilgrimage.

New rules for the faithful

This year's Hajj will commence on 7 July and will see a significant increase in pilgrims - 1 million, including foreigners - compared to the restrictions put in place during the pandemic for pilgrims, with only 1,000 Saudis allowed in 2020, followed by 60,000 fully vaccinated citizens and residents through a lottery system the following year.

However, the number of Hajj pilgrims this year still pales in contrast to the pre-pandemic levels of 2.5 million participants from around the world, representing the rich and diverse ummah of the Islamic world undertaking a fundamental pillar of the faith.

Other changes this time will include new rules introduced this month by the kingdom's Ministry of Hajj, namely those affecting Muslims in the west, who must now apply for an e-visa through a government website, called Motawif.

The Saudi Press Agency reported that "pilgrims from Europe, America, and Australia can register electronically" for this year's Hajj season through an online portal which "includes various options of packages, support services, and a multi-lingual communication center around the clock, in addition to the possibility of issuing visas electronically, which will facilitate the pilgrims' endeavor to perform Hajj via easy and accessible procedures."

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Corrupt media's lies about Clarence Thomas are a deliberate smear attempt

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© Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesSupreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas
Axios tried to smear Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas this week by falsely claiming that he said Covid-19 shots were manufactured using "aborted children," a factually true statement.

"Clarence Thomas says COVID vaccines are created with cells from 'aborted children,'" one Axios headline blared.

The basis for Axios's blatant lie about the justice stemmed from one of Thomas's dissents after the highest court in the land refused to take up a case challenging New York's Covid shot mandate.

Comment: Judge Clarence Thomas has been an unexpected thorn in the progressives' side for a while now. He just doesn't seem to behave the way they think he should. Thank goodness for that.


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Berlin university cancels lecture on biological gender

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A university in Berlin has canceled a lecture by biologist Marie Vollbrecht on the topic of biological gender after LGBT activists threatened to stage a protest, German news outlet Die Welt reported on Sunday.

Vollbrecht, who has a masters degree in biology, was supposed to participate in Saturday's "Long Night of Science" event, which takes place in Germany every year and allows large scientific institutions to hold lectures and demonstrations for the general public. Her talk was supposed to cover the topic of biological gender and explain why there are only two sexes in biology.

However, activists from a left-wing group called 'Working Group of Critical Lawyers' decried Vollbrecht's thesis as "unscientific, inhuman and hostile to queer and trans." They accused Humboldt University(HU), where the biologist works, of offering a stage to a "well-known trans-hostile speaker" and proclaimed on Twitter that "there is no place for queer hostility at our university. See you on the street!"

Comment: Caving in gets you nowhere with these extremists, people should know this by now! See also: Jordan Peterson: I'd rather die than delete truthful tweet for cancel creeps


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'Too busy enjoying the freedom': DeSantis team scoffs at Newsom ad

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© Getty Images/KJNCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-FL) team is scoffing at Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-CA) Independence Day ad that encourages Florida residents to move out west to his state.

Dave Abrams, a spokesman for DeSantis's reelection campaign, said that Florida voters are not likely impressed by Newsom's handling of California. He told the Daily Wire:
"The people of Florida pay no mind to the pathetic smear campaigns from the Democrats and their allies in the corporate media. We're too busy enjoying the freedom Gov. Ron DeSantis has created in the Sunshine State."
The ad, paid for by Newsom's reelection campaign, has incited early speculation of a 2024 presidential showdown between the two governors.

"It's Independence Day — so let's talk about what's going on in America," Newsom said in the ad, which he tweeted out on Sunday. "Freedom is under attack in your state."

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Most people say their country limited freedoms too much during the pandemic

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You may recall that, at the start of the pandemic, surveys found remarkably high levels of support for lockdown. In a poll from March of 2020, for example, 93% of Brits supported the Government's Covid measures; only 4% were opposed.

High levels of pro-lockdown sentiment continued into the second year of the pandemic. A poll taken in July of 2021 - so after months of lockdown and the vaccine rollout - found that one third of Brits would support permanent social distancing, and 45% would support permanent vaccine travel requirements.

As I've noted before, one reason why public support for lockdown was so high - in Britain and elsewhere - is that people overestimated the risks of Covid. As George Davey Smith and David Spiegelhalter wrote in the BMJ, adopting targeted approaches would "require a shift away from the notion that we are all seriously threatened by the disease, which has led to levels of personal fear being strikingly mismatched to objective risk of death".

In a poll from December of 2020, 28% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats said the chance of being hospitalised if you catch Covid is 50%. (The correct answer at the time was less than 5%.) The poll was then repeated a whole year later, and the number of Democrats who believed there's a 50% chance of being hospitalised if you catch Covid hadn't budged - it was still 41%!

Comment: The results reveal varying intensities of indoctrination, automaton belief, herd mentality and plain ignorance.