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Two states, Florida and Alabama, have banned lab-grown meat for consumption, while three others have proposed similar restrictions on the controversial 3D-printed meat. Additionally, ten states now mandate labeling of lab-grown meat. Meanwhile, the rest of the US has no regulations governing fake meat.
In the era of Trump 2.0, the "Make America Healthy Again" initiative aims to promote nutritious, clean, and natural food — rejecting not just science experiment foods funded by woke billionaires like Bill Gates but also toxic processed foods.
© UnknownNew York Mayor Eric Adams
"People often say, 'You don't sound like a Democrat. You seem to have left the party.'" Adams told Carlson. "No, the party left me, and it left working-class people."Throughout the interview, Adams tied his indictment on bribery and corruption charges to his decision to speak out against the illegal immigrant surge in New York City.
He claimed those who push back on "the norm" within the Democratic party get "demonized."
As Katabella Roberts reports for The Epoch Times, Adams was indicted in September 2024 on charges of taking bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources.
The charges include accepting improper valuable benefits, including luxury international travel, from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him.
The indictment alleges that Adams not only accepted but also sought out illegal campaign contributions to his 2021 mayoral campaign. The mayor has denied the allegations against him and pleaded not guilty to all charges.
© YouTubeComputer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman.
Earlier this week, Fridman announced on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that he was planning to travel to Russia to interview Putin as part of his personal mission to promote peace in the Ukraine conflict.
Speaking to journalists on Thursday, spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed contact, saying: "We are in touch. He contacted us. He said he would like to come to Moscow... to discuss the possibility of an interview with the president." He noted that Fridman, who grew up in the Russian capital, is "from our parts."
However, Peskov pointed out that the podcaster is aware that any such meeting is not a "a matter of the near future," noting that Putin does not currently have the need to give an interview.
"There must be some conditions that require additional clarification. At the very least, he will be one of those whom we will consider and propose to the president. But so far there are no precise agreements on this matter," Peskov said, adding that Fridman would nevertheless be welcome to visit Moscow.
"I'm aware of the risks, I accept the risks, and the goal, the mission is to just push for peace," Fridman told Rogan.
Fridman previously interviewed Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky, whom he has described as a man that "lifted a whole nation" but also "struggled to make peace." In a video address on Monday, the podcaster said he was ultimately disappointed with the Ukrainian leader for using the three-hour interview to verbally attack Putin with "very crude words" instead of taking the opportunity to "signal willingness to negotiate."
© Metro Nashville via APThis photo provided by Metro Nashville Police, emergency personnel gather outside Antioch High School after a shooting incident on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 in Nashville, Tenn.
The 17-year-old shooter, who was also a student at Antioch High School, later shot and killed himself with a handgun, Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference. Police identified him as Solomon Henderson.
Police Chief John Drake said the shooter "confronted" student Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, in the cafeteria and opened fire, killing her.
The wounded student was grazed by a bullet. He was treated and released from the hospital, Drake said. Another student was taken to a hospital for treatment of a facial injury that happened during a fall, Aaron said.
Metro Nashville Police, federal and state agencies are examining "very concerning online writings and social media posts connected to 17-year-old Solomon Henderson" as they work to establish a motive, police said in a statement Wednesday evening.
© Sergey Guneev/SputnikRussian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova
The decades-long US promotion of the diversity and inclusion agenda should be investigated on an international level, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
Zakharova made the remarks on Tuesday, a day after newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump ended protections for transgender rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the federal government.
Zakharova wrote on Telegram:
"Can you imagine how many people's lives have been ruined over the years of promoting this nonsense? What should hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people do now, who have been forced to accept the ideology of amputating healthy genitals and replacing them with artificial ones?"Zakharova stated that officials in Washington have been forcing other countries:
"To show solidarity with what they called anti-scientific narratives, which in essence was the very propaganda that kills both the body and the soul. This 'inhumane doctrine' was linked with aid, sanctions, and political and financial pressure, as well as the "humiliation of human dignity and bullying."On his first day back in office, Trump repealed 78 executive orders signed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, including at least a dozen measures supporting racial equity and combating discrimination against gay and transgender people.
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Those words to CNN counsel by Judge William Henry also clearly spoke for the Florida jury which, on Friday, awarded $5 million for Navy veteran Zachary Young and approved an additional amount, still to be determined, for punitive damages.
The CNN loss is only the latest in a series of media cases that have reversed decades of case law where the media largely prevailed under highly protective legal standards. It says a great deal about the state of modern journalism and its unrelenting efforts at self-destruction.
In "The Indispensable Right," I discuss the radical shift in American journalism that occurred with the rejection of neutrality and objectivity in favor of advocacy journalism. J-schools now teach that objectivity is a dated concept. As former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has explained, "All journalism is activism."
Comment: And in other news relating to the washed-up echo chamber of state-fed propaganda (otherwise known as corporate media), the new FCC Chair has a thing or two to say about the way these companies go about their business. And its long past time if you ask us!
ABC, NBC, CBS Back In Hot-Seat After New FCC Chair Reinstates Complaints
The new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr (R), will overturn an 11th hour decision by the outgoing Democrat chair - and will reinstate three complaints against major media outlets related to bias in the 2024 US election.
Last week, outgoing Chair Jessica Rosenworcel (D) tossed four pending petitions against ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX News - which she said sought "to curtail freedom of the press."
And by 'freedom of the press,' Rosenworcel meant the freedom to deceptively edit a Kamala Harris '60 Minutes' interview to make her appear fit for office, freedom to help Harris in her debate against Trump, and freedom to prop Harris up with a (not funny) appearance on 'Saturday Night Live.'
According to the report, Carr will reinstate the claims against ABC, NBC and CBS - filed by the Center of American Rights - but not the one against Fox, which sought to block Fox Corp's local Philadelphia division's renewal of their license over claims of 2020 election fraud.A source told Newsmax that Carr will put the ABC, NBC, and CBS cases back into pending or active status. The move means the complaints against the three networks can be adjudicated on their merits.In other FCC news, Carr is ready to rock on Trump's executive order killing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the federal government.
The source added that Rosenworcel could have prevented the FCC from reversing course had she acted a few weeks earlier. That could have prevented Carr from overturning his predecessor's decision. -Newsmax
In a post on X, Carr said he's "ending the FCC's promotion of DEI and will focus our work on competently carrying out the FCC's statutory mission," adding that the agency will no longer promote DEI in their strategic plans.
In a statement released by the FEC, Carr explained that "Promoting invidious forms of discrimination runs contrary to the Communications Act and deprives Americans of their rights to fair and equal treatment under the law.
"It also represents a wasteful expenditure of taxpayer resources. Nonetheless, the FCC joined other private and public sector institutions in promoting discriminatory DEI policies during the Biden administration. The FCC did so by embedding DEI in its strategic priorities, budget requests, advisory groups, rulemaking proceedings and many other components of its official work."
© Getty Images / Artur WidakAn artist painting a mural as part of a market campaign, promoting diversity, inclusion and body positivity.
According to Milonov, who serves as deputy head of the parliamentary family protection committee, the social movement that advocates for acceptance of all body types and a questioning of traditional beauty standards - is a cause for concern globally and in Russia.
"Considering the social and medical danger of body positivity, I am asking you to put forward an initiative to recognize this ideology as undesirable on the territory of Russia," he urged the minister.
The trend runs counter to the Russian government's efforts to protect the health of the citizens, promote a healthy lifestyle, and support traditional family values, the lawmaker claimed.
Comment: Some individuals may struggle to lose weight due to genetic or biological factors. And in some cases, fat can even be protective. However, the emphasis on body positivity can reduce people's motivation to adopt healthier habits. Therefore, it seems beneficial to limit the influence of this ideology.
See also: It's not fine to be fat. Celebrating obesity is irresponsible
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The Washington Post and New York Times were quick to welcome him to office - by scapegoating Anthony Blinken--now called the Secretary of War!
Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, contributed $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Go figure!
WaPo and the NYT are still DNP mouthpieces but...and they have a constituency — but they couldn't exactly throw Biden under the bus after celebrating his presidency as the Second Coming of Christ..
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Word is he's starting a rock group with Zelly and Bibi.
Look - they gotta throw somebody under the bus!
At the same time, it pays to be a little circumspect at inauguration time when the guy you never thought could win not only won but won bigly, with support beyond his billionaire and trillionaire backers — that is, with, public support!
The MSM want clicks - so they're going to play nice - for a while at least.
Blinken is click bait.
Today, the world's economy no longer runs on oil, but data. Shortly after the advent of the microprocessor came the internet, unleashing an onslaught of data running on the coils of fiber optic cables beneath the oceans and satellites above the skies. While often posited as a liberator of humanity against the oppressors of nation-states that allows previously impossible interconnectivity and social organization between geographically separated cultures to circumnavigate the monopoly on violence of world governments, ironically, the internet itself was birthed out of the largest military empire of the modern world - the United States.
Comment: Indeed. Not terribly surprising then to learn that Amazon, a data collection service extraordinaire (among other things), has familial ties to DARPA.
See: FBI file on Jeff Bezos' grandfather, a DARPA co-founder, has been destroyed
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That is something to think hard about. Because why would you still maintain a judicial system, with courts and judges and prosecutors, if that system doesn't apply to a large group of people? I can't think of a good reason. The rule of law in America is now an abstract idea that belongs in the past. What might be good about this is that the Dems have lost any and all future rights to go after any and all Republicans. But it still doesn't sit well.
You can forgive someone for something they've done, but you can't pardon them for what they might have done, or perhaps even still might do. That is literally a licence to kill. And that has to be illegal. Even if you are the President. It also violates the Constitution, and in too many ways to count. Ergo: the US is no longer a constitutional republic. It's now all bananas all the way down.
Biden's pre-emptive pardons have changed the country forever, though of course nobody realizes it at the moment it happens. From now on in, anything goes. Lying to Congress? No problem. Murder? Don't give it a second thought. Just as long as you get along with whoever is President, or who functions as such, you will be pardoned.
Comment: When choice becomes the victim of persuasion...it is no longer choice. When persuasion becomes the victim of choice...it is decision. When choice and persuasion are nulled, 'it' just is.