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Liberals massively overestimate popularity of 'Latinx' among Hispanics

Noah Carl
Daily Sceptic
Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:00 UTC
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One thing that seems to really exercise the woke is the fact that there are two genders and, with the exception of a tiny number of intersex people, you're either one or the other: male or female. The so-called 'gender binary' is such a profound part of human life that many languages require different word-endings when referring to men versus women.

One language where this is true is Spanish. Consequently, a person of Latin American origin who happens to be male is a 'Latino', while a person of such origin who happens to be female is a 'Latina'.

Now, there are many Hispanic people in the U.S. - the global epicentre of woke - and the usage of 'Latino' and 'Latina' has been a source of great consternation there. After all, the language the woke are used to hearing, English, doesn't have grammatical gender. To remedy this situation, they've come up with a gender-neutral term for Hispanic people: 'Latinx' (pronounced 'la-teen-ex').
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SOTT Focus: Across Europe Deaths Are Far Higher Now Than They Were in The 'Pandemic Years' of 2020 And 2021

Nick Rendell
The Daily Sceptic
Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:59 UTC
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In the year from week ending June 5th 2022 to week ending June 4th 2023 the U.K. recorded 1,059 excess death per million people. The odd thing about this is that excess deaths in the U.K. in 2023 are higher than the excess deaths in the same period in 2020-21 in 13 of the 27 EU nations!

If the people of Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands and Sweden were so worried about the likelihood of dying that they acquiesced in locking themselves up, voluntarily trashed their economies and stopped their kids going to school back in 2020-21 (well, Sweden didn't, but the rest did), why don't we feel the need to do the same now? We have more excess deaths now than they had then.

If YouGov did a poll tomorrow asking whether or not we should, right now, go back into lockdown, how many thumbs up would it receive? Very few, I should hope. But if U.K. citizens don't think it's a good idea now, why did the Germans or the Finns or the Greeks think it was a good idea in 2020 and 2021? Could it be that they were manipulated? That they weren't given the whole picture? That they were 'had'?
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Prosecutors in France investigate man's death by police 'flash-ball projectile' used during Marseille riots


Al Jazeera
Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:00 UTC
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© Clement Mahoudeau/AFP]Marseille was engulfed in riots and looting following the funeral of a teenager of North African descent, Nahel M
French prosecutors opened an investigation into the death of a 27-year-old man who was hit by a projectile during riots.

The likely cause of death was a violent shock to the chest from a "flash-ball" projectile as used by riot police, their office said on Tuesday, without specifying who fired or owned the gun.

Flash-balls are described as "less-lethal" projectiles made of rubber or condensed foam that are fired during crowd-control measures.

The impact led to cardiac arrest and sudden death in the night between early Sunday. Prosecutors said it was not possible to determine where the man was when he was shot or whether the victim had taken part in the riots.

Comment: See also: Fires, looting and hundreds of arrests: Third night of rioting in France following police killing of teenager

From March 2023: 3 million attend France's 9th consecutive day of protests, woman has hand blown off by tear gas grenade, Bordeaux town hall set on fire

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Eye 1

Eighty Afghan civilians may have been summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told

Dan Sabbagh
The Guardian
Sun, 02 Jul 2023 18:41 UTC
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© Manish Swarup/APBritish troops in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.
Lawyers for bereaved families allege British soldiers carried out policy of terminating all fighting-age men.

Eighty Afghans may have been victim of summary killings by three separate British SAS units operating in the country between 2010 and 2013, lawyers representing the bereaved families have told a public inquiry.

One of the elite soldiers is believed to have "personally killed" 35 Afghans on a single six-month tour of duty as part of an alleged policy to terminate "all fighting-age males" in homes raided, "regardless of the threat they posed".

Comment: See also:

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Blame food prices for France's riots

Philip Pilkington
Unherd
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:01 UTC
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© GettyA protester clashes with police during a commemoration march for Nahel Merzouk last week.
Energy sanctions over Ukraine are leading to soaring costs.

In the spring of 1775 a wave of riots, approximately 300 in total, engulfed the Kingdom of France. The protests did not subside until the army had been deployed and hundreds of rioters arrested. These events became known as the "Flour War" because the riots were precipitated by a sharp increase in grain prices, which were then passed on to French consumers in the form of higher food prices.

While the Flour War seems like ancient history, it may well have something to tell us about the riots taking place in France over the last few days. Of course, the immediate cause of this unrest was the shooting of a teenager by police. Yet it follows on from smaller riots this year, first in response to President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms, and then to the building of reservoirs in the west of the country.

Comment: See also:

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The dystopian European Media Freedom Act is a Trojan horse

Rachel Marsden
RT
Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:53 UTC
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© Getty Images / cbies
Codifying the most basic rights - like a free press - is a pretty good indication that someone wants to mess with them.

How on earth did media freedom in the EU survive up to this point without the big-brained Brussels bureaucrats protecting it?

Does the average media consumer ever ask themselves, "Am I more or less informed now that the establishment claims to be working to actively protect me?" The list of websites that require a VPN pointed at a country outside of the European Union has never been so long.
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Ministers were given stark warning that more children would die from suicide than from contracting Covid-19 if they shut schools, report reveals

Arthur Parashar
Daily Mail
Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:50 UTC
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Ministers were given a stark warning that more children would die from suicide than from contracting Covid-19 if they shut schools.
Ministers were given a stark warning that more children would die from suicide than from contracting Covid-19 if they shut schools, a damning new report from parent campaigners has revealed.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on March 18, 2020, that England's schools were to close until further notice - and they would remain shut for longer than any other country in Europe.

Many children returned to their classrooms in September 2020, only for schools to be shut again in January 2021. Even when they reopened that March, Covid outbreaks and isolation rules caused chaos.

It has now emerged that the Government was warned in November 2020 that 'many more children will die from suicide than Covid-19 this year',' The Telegraph reports.

That message was given in a joint briefing paper by the Department for Education and the Independent Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours - in which they cited a rise in self-harm among young people during lockdown.

Comment: See also:

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White House releases report on reflecting sunlight to cool the earth, no formal study planned now

Catherine Clifford
CNBC
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:06 UTC
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© Chuchart Duangdaw | Moment | Getty ImagesFull frame sun, Climate change, Heatwave hot sun, Global warming from the sun and burning
On Friday, the White House released a federally mandated report on solar geoengineering, which is an umbrella term that describes methods of reflecting sunlight away from the earth to cool the atmosphere.

The Biden-Harris administration has no plans underway to launch a comprehensive research program into solar radiation modification, according to a senior administration official.

But the report also says there is good logic for a cohesive research agenda on this topic.

Comment: Blocking out the sun is not a very smart idea since it could lead to an ice age.

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Confidence in US, UK governments dragged to 'lowest' point among G7 nations

Benedict Vigers
Gallup
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:59 UTC
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© Niall Carson - Pool/Getty ImagesUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) attends a bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House on June 8, 2023 in Washington, DC.
For decades, much has been made of the "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom. But in 2022, the national governments of both nations shared a somewhat less special accomplishment: earning the least confidence from their constituents of any G7 member country.
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© Gallup
When Gallup first measured national confidence in governments around the world nearly two decades ago, both President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were well into their terms in office. The governments they led retained extensive confidence domestically -- far more so than for almost all the rest of the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Italy).
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Lockdowns a "global policy failure of gigantic proportions", say experts

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:15 UTC
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© unknown'Mystic' Neil Ferguson, epidemiologist
Lockdowns were "a global policy failure of gigantic proportions", driven by government fear campaigns and "fantasy numbers" from dud models, a top international team of researchers has concluded. The Epoch Times has more:

The days of Covid lockdowns may be behind us for the time being, but a multinational academic team has conducted a broad analysis of government pandemic actions and found them to be "a global policy failure of gigantic proportions", often driven by state and media-sponsored fear campaigns.

Their findings, published in a book titled Did Lockdowns Work? The Verdict on Covid Restrictions, are based on a worldwide meta-analysis that screened nearly 20,000 studies to determine the benefits and harms from health diktats, including lockdowns, school closures and mask mandates. According to economist Steve Hanke, one of the co-authors, one of the things that drove countries into a state of panic and draconian policies was reliance on mortality models from sources like Imperial College London (ICL) that generated "fantasy numbers" showing that millions of deaths could be averted by instituting crippling society-wide lockdowns.

Hanke told the Epoch Times:
"Prior to the Covid outbreak, most countries did have a plan to deal with pandemics, but after the Imperial College of London's 'numbers' were published, those plans were, in a panic, thrown out the window. In each case, the same pattern was followed: flawed modeling, hair-raising predictions of disaster that missed the mark and no lessons learned. The same mistakes were repeated over and over again and were never challenged."
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