Society's ChildS


Green Light

Crime waves, criminal gangs, and civil unrest in the US

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Violence and crime are already completely out of control all over the United States. In fact, you definitely wouldn't want to be caught in the streets when hordes of our lawless young people are running wild. If things are this bad already, what is going to happen if the election in November does not go the way that leaders on the left want and they give the green light to millions of radicals to cause widespread chaos all over America? I think that we got a small preview of what this could look like during the riots of 2020. Unfortunately, since that time the open border policies of the Biden administration have allowed millions of extremely desperate people to come pouring into this country. The stage is being set for civil unrest on a scale that we have never seen before, and it certainly isn't going to take much to push our society over the edge.

NPC

Woke mind virus causes 'anxiety & depression', new study reveals

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A new study from psychological researchers in Finland, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, finds a positive correlation between an individual's commitment to social justice beliefs, including "intersectionality," "antiracism," and "wokeness," and experiencing a life full of anxiety and depression.

As the 'woke mind virus' spreads like cancer across Western nations, there are new concerns about a developing mental health crisis. This is because the study, titled "Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social justice attitudes," finds an elevated risk of anxiety and depression in the Finnish population who practice the so-called "woke" religion.

Family

Cereal for the peasants? How the elites use "skimpflation" to control our eating habits

WEF food pyramid
People who have been reading my analysis for a long time are well aware of my expectations on the eventual outcome of the US economic debacle: A stagflationary crisis followed by a massive crash similar to the Great Depression (or worse). I based this prediction on a number of circumstances, but primarily I went back to the history of currency devaluations and central bank policy. These kinds of things have happened before and they tend to follow a pattern that is visible today.

Specifically, I studied the 1971-1981 stagflation crisis for reference and I found some startling similarities. It was one of the worst economic declines in American history next to the depression, and it's an event that almost no one talks about. A lot of people (specifically Gen Z) believe that our current era is the worst financial era of all time and that their generation has been shafted by previous generations.

This is inaccurate; the stagflation disaster of the 1970s was far worse. That said, it shows us where our country is eventually headed and it's not looking good. What is a manageable economic crunch today has the potential to become a calamity tomorrow.

Arrow Up

'Unprecedented' number of Russians voted abroad, says Ministry of Foreign Affairs

People line up outside the Russian embassy in Berlin
© Carsten Koall / dpa via AP / TASSPeople line up outside the Russian embassy in Berlin
An "unprecedented" number of Russians living abroad voted in the March 15-17 presidential election, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Monday.

Preliminary data shows 372,779 Russians cast their ballots outside of Russia during the three-day race, according to Zakharova.

"The figures are, of course, unprecedented," Zakharova told the state broadcaster Channel One.

Zakharova did not indicate which share of the vote went to Vladimir Putin, who secured a record 87.33% of all votes cast as he heads for another six-year term.

Comment: See also: 'People Are The Power in Russia' Says Putin as he Wins Fifth Term With Record 87% of Votes


Mr. Potato

Gags and Jibes

Marc Elias
Marc Elias
"My law firm is currently in court fighting for free and fair elections in 52 cases across 19 states." — Marc Elias, DNC Lawfare Ninja, punking voters
Have you noticed how quickly our Ukraine problem went away, vanished, phhhhttttt? At least from the top of US news media websites. The original idea, as cooked-up by departed State Department strategist Victoria Nuland, was to make Ukraine a problem for Russia, but instead we made it a problem for everybody else, especially ourselves in the USA, since it looked like an attempt to kick-start World War Three. Now she is gone, but the plans she laid apparently live on.

Our Congress so far has resisted coughing up another $60-billion for the Ukraine project — most of it to be laundered through Raytheon (RTX), General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin — so instead "Joe Biden" sent Ukraine's President Zelensky a few reels of Laurel and Hardy movies. The result was last week's prank: four groups of mixed Ukraine troops and mercenaries drawn from sundry NATO members snuck up to the border of Russia's Belgorod region to capture a nuclear weapon storage facility while Russia held its presidential election. I suppose it looked good on the war-gaming screen.

Windsock

Go woke, go broke: Swedish wind farms facing bankruptcy

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© VattenfallPower plants/ Lillgrund, Sweden
From the Brussels Signal: Icy blast of bankruptcies loom for Swedish wind-power sector, experts warn

Two Swedish economists have issued a warning that the country's wind-power industry is on the brink of a wave of bankruptcies.

Christian Sandström and Christian Steinbeck analysed wind-power companies' annual reports in Sweden and their work revealed "significant financial problems", they told Swedish media outlet Kvartal on February 28:
"The total loss for the years 2017-2022 amounted to 13.5 billion Swedish krona [€1.2 billion], which meant a loss margin of 39 per cent."
Such heavy losses seem to be the rule rather than the exception for wind-power companies in Sweden, according to the annual reports.

Stop

National Health Service England stops prescribing puberty blockers, citing 'not enough evidence'

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The National Health Service England announced Tuesday it will not routinely prescribe puberty blockers for children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria.

The decision posted online referenced research collected by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in 2020 that raised concerns of uncertainty in the treatment's efficacy and potential side effects.

The publication by NHS England stated:
"We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of (puberty suppressing hormones) to make the treatment routinely available at this time."
Fewer than 100 kids and teens in England are on puberty blockers, they will be allowed to continue their treatment, and some youth may still be able to access the treatment as part of a clinical trial, the BBC reported.

Comment: High Court case has changed the rules:
NHS: England has updated its guidelines to fall into line with the law. Here's what's changed and what it means for trans youth:
  • Broadly, this is a positive step forward so long as you have the support from home. For these people, it means 'best interest orders' are not mandatory if the young person has consent from their parents and a clinical recommendation.
  • The 'Review Group' is essentially a new part of the process that will have an independent panel decide whether a clinical decision around puberty blockers is correct and to ensure everyone is in agreement.
  • "The review group's role is not to endorse or refuse treatment - it is there to ensure appropriate decision-making processes have been followed, particularly with regard to assessing and supporting consent to treatment."
  • Should the review group have 'any doubts' about whether the decision-making process was robust a best interest order application may be applied for.
  • This is an interim position - may review it again following the Cass Review and the Bell Appeal, which we hear will be heard this summer.



Gavel

Canadian Supreme Court rules it was 'problematic' for lower court judge to refer to alleged victim as a 'woman'

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© CANADIAN PRESS/SHUTTERSTOCKJustice Sheilah Martin (bottom right) with other justices of the Supreme Court in Ottawa, Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a recent sexual assault case that it was "problematic" for a lower court judge to refer to the alleged victim as a "woman," implying that the more appropriate term should have been "person with a vagina."

In a decision published Friday, Justice Sheilah Martin wrote that a trial judge's use of the word "a woman" may "have been unfortunate and engendered confusion."

Martin does not specify why the word "woman" is confusing, but the next passage in her decision refers to the complainant as a "person with a vagina." Notably, not one person in the entire case is identified as transgender, and the complainant is referred to throughout as a "she."

The case was R. v. Kruk, which involved a 2017 charge of sexual assault against then 34-year-old Maple Ridge, B.C., man Charles Kruk.

"Mr. Kruk found the complainant intoxicated, lost, and distressed one night in downtown Vancouver," reads the background to the case. "He decided to take her to his house, and connected with the complainant's parents by phone."

Star of David

UN describes 'huge obstacles' to getting relief to Gaza as nearly 200 tons of food and supplies are finally allowed in

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© (REUTERS/Yiannis KourtoglouMarch, 2024: Humanitarian aid for Gaza is loaded onto a cargo ship amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
Israel's air and ground campaign has since killed more than 31,000 Palestinians

A ship towing a barge loaded with food arrived off Gaza on Friday, witnesses said, as a test run for a new aid route by sea from Cyprus into the devastated Palestinian enclave where famine looms after five months of Israel's military campaign.

The ship, arranged by the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity, is carrying nearly 200 tonnes of aid to be delivered via a jetty being prepared in Gaza, with a second ship expected to sail soon.

There are few details on how the aid delivery and distribution will work once it is ready to unload in Gaza, with U.N. relief agencies having described huge obstacles to getting relief supplies to those in need.

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Cult

British teacher sacked for refusing to treat eight-year-old as 'a boy' after school ordered her to 'go along with pupil's wishes'

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© Paul Tonge
A teacher sacked for refusing to treat an eight-year-old girl as a boy will tell an employment tribunal this week of her serious concerns for the child's welfare.

She was ordered by the headteacher before the start of term to go along with the wishes of the pupil to 'socially transition' under the guidance of controversial LGBT charity Stonewall.

It meant calling her by a boy's name and using male pronouns, and also involved an ultimately futile attempt to keep her gender change a secret from classmates.

The child, backed by her parents, was allowed to wear a boy's uniform and to use the boys' lavatories and changing rooms. Troubled by the situation, the teacher, referred to as 'Hannah' for legal reasons, raised the matter as a safeguarding issue, believing it endangered the child and other pupils in the short and long-term.

'We hear a lot about protected characteristics - what about the right of a child to grow up?' Hannah told The Mail on Sunday. 'It is heartbreaking.'