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Court rejects Trump-era EPA finding that weed killer safe

Matthew Daily
AP News
Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
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© AP/Haven DaleyGlyphosate infused weed killer products
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a Trump administration finding that the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup does not pose a serious health risk and is "not likely" to cause cancer in humans.

The California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reexamine its 2020 finding that glyphosate did not pose a health risk for people exposed to it by any means โ€” on farms, yards or roadsides or as residue left on food crops.

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world. Pharmaceutical giant Bayer, which acquired the herbicide's original producer Monsanto in 2018, is facing thousands of claims from people who say Roundup exposure caused their cancer.

Roundup will remain available for sale. According to an agency spokesman, EPA officials are reviewing the 54-page ruling "and will decide next steps.โ€ณ The Supreme Court is also considering whether to hear an appeal from Bayer that could shut down thousands of lawsuits on the cancer claims.

Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, Judge Michelle Friedland said EPA's finding of no risk to human health "was not supported by substantial evidence.โ€ณ She also ruled that EPA fell short of its obligations under the Endangered Species Act by inadequately examining glyphosate's impact on animal species and vegetation.
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America's belief in God hits new low

Erin Doherty
Axios
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:01 UTC
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The number of Americans who believe in God has dropped to the lowest level in the 78 years Gallup has asked the question, per a poll out Friday.

Driving the news: 81% of U.S. adults say they believe in God โ€” down 6 points from 2017.
  • Belief in God dropped the most among young adults, liberals and Democrats, with these groups showing a drop of 10 or more percentage points compared to an average of polls from 2013 to 2017, Gallup found.
More than 90% of Americans believed in God between 1944 and 2011.
  • Conservatives and married adults experienced little change in beliefs, and other subgroups, including education level and ages, experienced but a modest decline.

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'I literally lost organs:' Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders

Rikki Schlott
New York Post
Sat, 18 Jun 2022 09:01 UTC
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© Courtesy of Chloe ColeAt 12 years old, Chloe Cole decided she was transgender. At 13, she was put on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone. At 15, she underwent a double mastectomy. Less than a year later, she realized she'd made a mistake.
"I was failed by the system. I literally lost organs."

When Chloe was 12 years old, she decided she was transgender. At 13, she came out to her parents. That same year, she was put on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone. At 15, she underwent a double mastectomy. Less than a year later, she realized she'd made a mistake โ€” all by the time she was 16 years old.

Now 17, Chloe is one of a growing cohort called "detransitioners" โ€” those who seek to reverse a gender transition, often after realizing they actually do identify with their biological sex. Tragically, many will struggle for the rest of their lives with the irreversible medical consequences of a decision they made as minors.

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More people are avoiding the news, and trusting it less, report says


News24
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:01 UTC
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© Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty ImagesYounger audiences are increasingly accessing the news via platforms such as TikTok.
A growing number of people are selectively avoiding important news stories such as the coronavirus pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis, according to a report released on Tuesday.

While the majority of people surveyed consume news regularly, 38% said they often or sometimes avoid the news - up from 29% in 2017 - the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said in its annual Digital News Report. Around 36% - particularly those under 35 - say that the news lowers their mood.

Trust in news is also declining, and is lowest in the United States. On average, 42% of people said they trust most news most of the time; that figure has fallen in almost half the countries in the report and risen in seven.

Comment: Given the number of high-profile scandals involving news outlets of late, is it any wonder people are no longer trusting the news. More and more people are waking up to the fact that most news outlets are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the official narrative.

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South Korea: 90% elderly vaccination rate, large spike in excess mortality

Noah Carl
The Daily Sceptic
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:51 UTC
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Excess mortality data from Europe, Israel, Singapore and Australia suggest that vaccine effectiveness against death has been overestimated. In Europe and Israel, post-vaccination waves were sometimes as or more deadly than pre-vaccination waves. And countries like Singapore and Australia saw sizeable upticks in excess mortality even after vaccinating a very large percentage of the population.

So while the vaccines do offer protection against serious illness and death, their effectiveness is unlikely to be as high as 90%.

Another interesting country to look at in this regard is South Korea. After containing the virus for the first two years of the pandemic, the country experienced a major outbreak in February of this year. By that point, Korea had double vaccinated 86% of its population, and around 90% of over 80s.

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The engineered stagflationary collapse is here: What happens next?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:35 UTC
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In my 16 years as an alternative economist and political writer I have spent around half that time warning that the ultimate outcome of the Federal Reserve's stimulus model would be a stagflationary collapse. Not a deflationary collapse, or an inflationary collapse, but a stagflationary collapse. The reasons for this were very specific - Mass debt creation was being countered with MORE debt creation while many central banks have been simultaneously devaluing their currencies through QE measures. On top of that, the US is in the unique position of relying on the world reserve status of the dollar and that status is diminishing.

It was only a matter of time before the to forces of deflation and inflation met in the middle to create stagflation. In my article 'Infrastructure Bills Do Not Lead To Recovery, Only Increased Federal Control', published in April of 2021, I stated that:
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Left wing America is destroying itself

Douglas Murray
The Telegraph
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:26 UTC
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America's cities are rotting. The Democrat-run cities in particular. And all of them are going wrong in the same way, suffused with the same problems of violence, drugs and homelessness.

In the nation's capital, the homelessness problem is visible from the moment you enter the city. Arriving into DC used to be a great pleasure, with the visitor immediately thrown into the centre of the grand capital. Today the lawns outside Union station that greet the traveller are covered with tents. It is just the first of the homeless encampments which visitors are now confronted with throughout the city. Almost every green space in DC is now covered with tents, a constant reminder that America seems to be rotting from the centre outwards.

Though DC may be the most painful example, the ground zero of this experiment in urban degeneration has been San Francisco.

There was a time when San Francisco could be counted among the most beautiful cities in the world - blessed by its position on the bay and its glorious weather. But as Michael Shellenberger chronicled last year in his book San Fransicko, the city was run into the ground by a succession of appalling policies. Left-wing policies, in particular, destroyed this nirvana.
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Most Americans oppose trans athletes in female sports, poll finds

Tara Bahrampour, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin
The Washington Post
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:00 UTC
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© Scott Utterback/Louisville Courier-Journal/APIn Frankfort, Ky., Fischer Wells, right, testifies on Feb. 10 against a bill would bar transgender girls from participating in school sports that match their gender identity. Wells's mother, Jenifer Alonzo, listens at left.
Even as an increasing share of Americans report familiarity with and tolerance for transgender people, most oppose allowing transgender female athletes to compete against other women at the professional, college and high school level, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

The poll, conducted May 4 through 17 among 1,503 people across the United States, finds 55 percent of Americans opposed to allowing transgender women and girls to compete with other women and girls in high school sports and 58 percent opposed to it for college and professional sports. About 3 in 10 Americans said transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete at each of those levels, while an additional 15 percent have no opinion.

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Most Democrats, Republicans say US 'democracy' won't last, nearly 50% of those polled expect civil war to occur in their lifetime

Callie Patteson
New York Post
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:59 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: George Floyd protests :The poll found that nearly half of Republicans, Democrats and independents believe there will be a civil war in the US in their lifetime.
More than half of self-identified Democrats and Republicans believe the US will no longer be a "democracy" at some point in the future, according to a new poll.

The striking findings were reported in a Yahoo News/YouGov survey which found 55% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans said it was "likely" the US will "cease to be a democracy in the future."

It was unclear how the poll defined "democracy." The US is officially a constitutional federal republic where states run direct elections for most high offices โ€” though not, most notably, for president.

When independents and the non-affiliated were factored in, the depressing notion was shared by 49% of all respondents โ€” while only 25% said they consider the end of democracy to be "unlikely," while another 25% said they were unsure.
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China surpasses US in the eyes of young Africans as having 'most positive influence' - poll


Bloomberg
Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:52 UTC
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China has overtaken the US as the foreign power seen as having the biggest positive influence in Africa by young people, according to a survey released on Monday.

A survey conducted by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation found that 76% of 4,507 young Africans across 15 countries named China as a foreign power with a positive influence on their lives, compared with 72% for the US. In 2020, when the inaugural study of 18-to-24-year-olds was conducted, 83% of respondents saw the US's influence as positive while the figure for China was 79%.

The results are further evidence that China is winning the battle against geopolitical rivals such as the US and the European Union for the hearts and minds of Africans. Beijing has plowed money into African infrastructure over the past two decades and supplies the continent with affordable consumer goods ranging from mobile phones and solar panels to shovels and plastics.
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