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People who list non-binary pronouns on resume less likely to get hired

Savanah Hernandez
The Post Millennial
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:01 UTC
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According to a new study conducted by Business.com, resumes with "they/them" pronouns are more likely to be overlooked by employers. Managers shared that they were "less likely to want to contact an applicant whose resume included 'they/them' pronouns," per the study.

The study starts off with 400 "non-binary" people who use "they/them" pronouns, asking, "To what extent do you feel that identifying yourself as nonbinary to a potential employer would affect your job search?" Fifty-nine percent of respondents shared that it "hurt their job search," with another 24 percent sharing that "it would very much hurt." Only six percent of respondents felt that adding their pronouns would "help" either somewhat or very much.

Organizers of the study then conducted their own test in which they sent two similar resumes to 180 job postings. The only difference between the two resumes was that one contained "they/them" gender pronouns.

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Mothers swing at CDC for equating male nipple secretions to breast milk

Mary Margaret Olohan
The Daily Signal
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:01 UTC
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© Getty ImagesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new guidance on biological men and "chest feeding" infant babies has roused the wrath of mothers across the nation, many of whom are well acquainted with the vulnerability, intricacies, and intimacy of breastfeeding their children.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new transgender-themed guidance on biological men and "chestfeeding" infant babies has roused the wrath of mothers across the nation, many of whom are well acquainted with the vulnerability, intricacies, and intimacy of breastfeeding their children.

"Transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the chest (chestfeed)," the CDC says in guidance on feeding infants. "The gender identity or expression of transgender individuals is different from their sex at birth. The gender identity of nonbinary-gendered individuals does not fit neatly into either man or woman."

The CDC also refers readers to the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine protocol that breaks down how biological men who identify as transgender women and have had "breast augmentation" (the addition of faux breasts) can "chestfeed" an infant baby.

Comment: The descent into collective insanity is getting worse:
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Nearly half over-50s who quit their jobs during Covid now live 'in poverty', think-tank finds

Martin Beckford
The Daily Mail
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:37 UTC
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New analysis has found that 48 per cent of the 50- to 70-year-olds who left employment in 2020-21 ended up in relative poverty
Half the older people who dropped out of the workforce at the start of the pandemic found themselves struggling financially, it is claimed today.

New analysis has found that 48 per cent of the 50- to 70-year-olds who left employment in 2020-21 ended up in relative poverty.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think-tank said the figure is 'significantly higher' than the proportion who quit before the pandemic, suggesting they were forced into early retirement by lockdown and health risks.

It will put extra pressure on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to succeed in his attempts to get large numbers of over-50s back to work by offering them so-called midlife MOTs and apprenticeships for new careers.

A massive 3.5million 50 to 64-year-olds were out of work and not looking for new jobs between November last year and this January, official figures show, a rise of 280,000 on the same period three years earlier before Covid arrived in the the UK.
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France riots - message from the US to get inline?

Alex Krainer
alexkrainer.substack.com
Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:09 UTC
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The government of French President Emmanuel Macron is under attack by the Anglo-American imperial establishment. The civil unrest that erupted across the nation was triggered by the 27 June 2023 Police killing of the 17-year old Nahel Merzouk (NM) in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. NM was driving a car without a driving license, failed to comply with police orders and for that he was shot point blank by two officers in full riot gear. NM was of Algerian origin. The next day, riots broke out in many cities across France: Paris, Marseille, Lille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Grenoble and also Brussels in Belgium. Some areas were left looking like war zones.

In fact, some of the riots did resemble low-intensity warfare. According to some reports, US weapons donated to Ukraine have found their way through black markets to the streets of French cities and into the hands of the protesters who used them in coordinated attacks on police and firefighters. Just on the night of Jun 30/July 1, 41 police stations were attacked, 79 police officers injured, 2560 fires were set in the streets, 1360 cars and 234 buildings were burnt. The government deployed 45,000 police and gendarmes to bring the situation under control, but thus far, the rioting has continued with great intensity for five straight days, threatening to destabilize the nation.

President Emmanuel Macron is under increasing pressure, not only from the rioters and the opposition, but more ominously, also from his own Police forces and the military. Police Unions of France wrote to Macron threatening to revolt: "Today the police are in combat as we are at war. Tomorrow we will be in the resistance and the government should be aware of this." Certain military circles appear ready to turn against Macron. General Pierre Villiers, who is apparently well respected among the French military commanders said that the army should be loyal to the people, not to Emmanuel Macron.

Comment: Taking into consideration the strained history between the two countries, and US' habit of meddling in EU affairs, it would not be surprising if the US 'nudged' things into action.

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Media's coordinated smear campaign against 'Sound of Freedom' tells you everything you need to know

Miles Klee
Rolling Stone
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:01 UTC
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© Angel StudiosJim Caviezel as Tim Ballard in 'Sound of Freedom.'

Comment: The following story from Rolling Stone, titled 'Sound Of Freedom' is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms, is an example of the coordinated smear campaign against 'Sound of Freedom,' a film exposing modern day child trafficking which overtook Disney's latest Indiana Jones film at the box office on July 4th weekend.


One thing is crystal clear: whoever is controlling the MSM clearly doesn't want you to see this movie!


"Based on a true story," I heard from somewhere across the theater.

The familiar words had appeared on screen, and an elderly man had taken it upon himself to read them aloud, to the rest of a sizable audience seated for a matinee showing of the anti-child-trafficking thriller Sound of Freedom, starring Jim Caviezel. For the seasoned moviegoer, this phrase is a joke — we know that cinema will stretch almost any "truth" to the breaking point — and the rank insincerity of such a pronouncement is the foundation of the prankish opening titles of Fargo. But this crowd, I could tell, would view the events depicted over the next two-plus hours as entirely literal.


Comment: A rather arrogant opening. Miles Klee is apparently much better than crowd he's lowered himself to mingle with. Such is the sacrifice necessary for a true "journalist"!


Caviezel, best known for being tortured to death in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, has become a prominent figure on the conspiracist right, giving speeches and interviews in which he hints at an underground holy war between patriots and a sinister legion of evildoers who are harvesting the blood of children. It's straight-up QAnon stuff, right down to his use of catchphrases like "The storm is upon us." Here, he gets to act out some of that drama by playing a fictionalized version of Tim Ballard, head of the anti-sex trafficking nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), in a feature film that casts the operator as a Batman-style savior for kids sold into the sex trade.

Comment: If you remove all the snide and arrogant posturing, what you're left with in this review is that this movie relies too much on action movie clichés and that the author thinks the problem the film is addressing is exaggerated. Most of what's written above criticizes the audience and the people behind the film, the actors, not the film itself. Yet it will probably be effective in convincing the average liberal with an inflated sense of their own intelligence that this is only a film for plebs.





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How to create a fake news cycle

Pierre Kory
Real Clear Politics
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:43 UTC
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© FR170079 APRobert F. Kennedy Jr.
Despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to pillory him as an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is having a moment. A recent poll from CNN of all places showed him earning 20% of Democratic primary voters - and that was before his Joe Rogan interview and shirtless push-up video went viral. Kennedy's support only confirms the titanic loss of trust between voters and mainstream media.

Except for those in the business, few people understand the inner workings of the media world. As a doctor and lifelong Democratic voter who pulled the lever for Biden in 2020, I had no clue. Prior to COVID-19, I trusted that what I was reading represented the truth. My experience running the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) quickly disabused me of that idea.

The first wave hit in December 2020, when I testified in the Senate that corticosteroids were saving my COVID patients' lives. My recommendations weren't just ignored - they were attacked, and I was personally ridiculed as a fraud and Trump puppet. My life and career were upended. I felt forced to resign my faculty position. It was cold comfort when a few months later, a large study confirmed my testimony and government agencies added steroids to the standard of care for COVID patients.
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Another incident at a Pemex facility: Huge fire at oil platform injures 6 in Gulf of Mexico

Florencia Trucco
CNN
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:33 UTC
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Emergency crews work to put out a fire at the Nohoch Alfa oil platform.
At least six people were injured after a fire broke out Friday at the Nohoch Alfa offshore platform at the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said in a statement.

Some 321 workers out of the 328 who were working on the structure when the fire started have already been evacuated, according to Pemex. Four boats have been sent to control the fires on the oil platform.

Some employees of other platforms told CNN Friday that the flames can be seen from the nearby platforms, so the incident appears to be of considerable magnitude.

Comment: Below is a selection of the other recent fires and explosion that have struck Pemex locations: See also: Huge blast hits major oil refinery in latest hit to Russian infrastructure, fuels suspicions of sabotage (Dec 2022)

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France now reaps what it has sown with rioting kids


RT
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:34 UTC
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© Philippe Lopez / AFPRiots in Bordeaux, south-western France on late June 29, 2023
Macron suggesting fines for parents of protesting minors is too little, too late

In response to the unrest involving kids averaging 17 years of age, sparked by the shooting death of a teen of the same age who refused to obey orders at a traffic stop, French President Emmanuel Macron has been looking for ways to restore order.

He suggested that the young rioters' parents start paying the price. "With the first crime, we need to find a way of sanctioning the families financially and easily," he said, calling it "a sort of minimum price for the first screw up."

Does anyone else know of another country - other than the "land of the child-king", as my French-Canadian friends call France - where kids are so badly behaved that the president has to threaten parents with penalties for neglecting their basic parental responsibilities to the point that private infrastructure gets trashed on a nightly basis?
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Unilever stock loses $2B amid calls to boycott Ben & Jerry's over tweet

Ariel Zilber
New York Post
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:40 UTC
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© Zilber, ArielShares of Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational firm, fell by as much as 0.63% during trading on Wall Street on Wednesday.
Ben & Jerry's parent company has lost nearly $2 billion in market cap amid calls to boycott the Vermont-based ice cream maker over a July 4 tweet condemning the US for existing on "stolen Indigenous land."

Shares of Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational firm, slid 0.8% Thursday after closing down 0.5% the previous day.

The company's stock price has closed Thursday at $51.31, nearly $1 below its closing price of $52.28 during Monday's shortened trading — and the day before Ben & Jerry's posted its unpatriotic tweet.

The result has seen its market cap drop to $128.5 billion from $130.2 billion on Monday.

Ben & Jerry's, which was acquired by Unilever but whose board remains independent in voicing its views on political issues, said the July 4 celebrations can "distract from an essential truth about this nation's birth."

"This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it," the brand's official Twitter account and a statement on Ben & Jerry's website trumpeted.

Comment: The narcissism of this tweet, both from the way it presumes an American exceptionalism to the conquest nature of nation building and its virtue signalling moral superiority, is as nauseatingly off-putting as their ice cream is indulgently sweet.

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The green mafia loses its collective mind

Jim Nelles
Fox News
Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:11 UTC
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© Andrew Harnik-Pool / Getty ImagesRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared in 2019 that the world would end in 12 years if measures weren't enacted to address climate change.
One of the few advantages that come with age - and believe me, there aren't many - is that one can look back at all the predictions made by futurists that turned out to be wrong. I am still waiting to travel in my flying car or by jet pack. Unless I missed the news, we still have not colonized the moon or Mars. And those colonies at the bottom of the ocean have yet to materialize.

One area where it seems that seems particularly wrought with inaccurate predictions is climate. In the 1960s we were all going to die from famine driven by overpopulation. We were heading for a new ice age in the 1970s. The oceans were going to be void of fish and the hole in the ozone layer was going to kill us all. Then we started to hear about global warming and the predictions became even more dire. When that didn't happen, the green mafia coined the phrase "climate change" to basically blame any natural disaster or unusual weather event as yet another human-driven greed and gluttony.

Then, in 2019, newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. predicted that the world would end in 12 years if we did not take immediate measures to address climate change. Well, we are still here four-and-a-half years later, but that hasn't stopped the green mafia from losing its collective mind and implementing crazy laws and policies in the name of environmental justice.

Comment: There is a connection between the Earth's weather patterns and human societies, but that connection has more to do with how many lies societal leaders tell and how much violent destruction is carried out in the name of those lies than how much meat people eat or how many cars they drive.

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