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France to deploy 40,000 extra police as rioting over killing of 17 year old continues into second night


Al Jazeera
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:48 UTC
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The French police officer who killed a 17-year-old in a Paris suburb was on Thursday placed under formal investigation for voluntary homicide as the government raced to ease public anger and protesters planned a tribute march.

The deadly shooting of Nahel M, the teenager of North African descent, during a traffic stop in Nanterre on Tuesday has triggered two nights of rioting across France, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to convene a crisis meeting with senior ministers.

Gerald Darmanin, interior minister, said 40,000 police, including 5,000 in Paris, will be deployed on Thursday evening to deal with any further protests.

Comment: Footage of the incident can be found here: France braces for more protests after police kill teenager at traffic stop
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Bizarro Earth

Kiev's proposal to rename major city is 'lunacy' - Ukrainian MP


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:06 UTC
Zaporozhye
© WikipediaNight view of Zaporozhye
A proposal by Kiev to rename the city of Zaporozhye was dismissed on Tuesday as "completely absurd" by Ukrainian MP Maksim Buzhansky. The city is controlled by Ukrainian forces, but is the capital of a region of the same name that voted to join Russia last autumn.

Buzhansky was responding to an initiative by Ukraine's National Commission for State Language Standards. The organization has released a list of over 1,400 placenames, including Zaporozhye, that it recommends should be changed under a law "on the prohibition of propaganda of Russian imperial policy and the decolonization of toponymy."

All the names on the list do not align with the Ukrainian language or are "related to Russian imperial policy," the statement claimed. The commission would not elaborate on why Zaporozhye, which is occupied by Ukrainian troops, had ended up on the list.

Referring to the city, the commission suggested that the authorities "justify keeping the current name or propose a new name" within six months. If this does not happen, the city's name will be changed by the Ukrainian parliament.
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Bizarro Earth

UK nurses report children suffering 'tooth decay, stunted growth', as soaring inflation takes its toll on families

Josh Halliday
The Guardian
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:14 UTC
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© Ben Birchall/PACampaigners are urging the government to commit to free school meals for every primary school pupil in England.
Children across Britain are suffering worsening levels of tooth decay, anxiety and stunted growth as the cost of food continues to soar, a survey of school nurses has found.

The scale and severity of health issues facing pupils has worsened in the past year as food prices soared to their highest level in 45 years, according to research.

Nurses reported children squirrelling away school meals to take home to their parents, while a growing number were being taken to A&E after fainting due to hunger.

Comment: The UK neglects its children at its own peril; and this isn't the only issue that will likely come back to bite everybody in the very near future:

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Bizarro Earth

Support for US in Israel reaches 20-year high - poll


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:06 UTC
United States Israel
© Jack Guez / AFPPeople with Israeli and US flags in Karmiel, Israel, 2020.
Public support for the US among Israelis has reached a two-decade high, according to a new survey of residents in 23 nations. While backing for Washington has generally declined across Europe, Poland remains an exception and demonstrates the highest level of support.

Asked about their views toward the US for a Pew survey published on Tuesday, 87% of Israelis polled said their opinion was generally favorable, with just 12% responding in the negative. That figure is the highest since Pew started conducting the survey in Israel in 2003, with ratings steadily creeping upward.

The US has long maintained close ties with Israel, with former Secretary of State Alexander Haig once likening the country to an "American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk." It continues to receive billions of dollars in US aid annually, much of it spent on military hardware.
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Prominent Canadian liberal politicians attend degenerate "Pride" parade where fetishists expose themselves to children

Thomas Stevenson
The Post Millennial
Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:34 UTC
Toronto pride
Prominent figures participated in the Toronto pride parade on Sunday, including Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, among others. The parade, put on by Pride Toronto, included people walking in puppy play and furry costume fetish gear. Several adults exposed themselves to the audience in attendance. Bud Light helped sponsor the event.

Comment: It would seem as though many people are now becoming sick of having LGBTQ propaganda constantly shoved down their throats, and are beginning to rebel against it:

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NPC

250 Hollywood celebrities sign letter demanding big tech censor anyone who opposes trans surgeries on kids

Steve Watson
Summit News
Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:44 UTC
trans pin doctor
© Nadzeya Haroshka / Getty Images
They call for action "akin to election and COVID-19 mitigations and rules".

Some 250 woke Hollywood celebrities from movies, TV and music have signed their names to an open letter urging big tech companies to crack down on anyone who doesn't fall into line with the trans agenda, including advocating life changing gender surgeries on children.

The letter was sent to the CEOs of Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter by GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and was signed by hundreds of famous names including Amy Schumer, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judd Apatow, Patrick Stewart and many more.

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Women hunt in majority of foraging societies, and use a greater variety of weapons and tactics than men, study finds

Xantha Leatham
Daily Mail
Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:00 UTC
woman hunter
A common belief is that, throughout history, men have been the hunters and women the gatherers. But new analysis turns this on its head – revealing that women hunt in the majority of foraging cultures
A common belief is that, throughout history, men have been the hunters and women the gatherers.

But new analysis turns this on its head - revealing that women hunt in the majority of foraging cultures and employ a greater variety of weapons and hunting strategies than their male counterparts.

Researchers from Seattle Pacific University analysed data from the past 100 years on 63 foraging societies around the world, including in North and South America, Africa, Australia and Asia.

They found women hunt in at least 79 per cent of these cultures, regardless of whether they have children or not.

More than 70 per cent of female hunting appears to be intentional, the team said, as opposed to the opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities.

Comment: This may be so - and the research is interesting, it's just that one must be cautious due to the fact that science has become increasingly warped by ideology - but it is still true that women and men have different capabilities and therefore usually act and are treated differently.

Note also that these are apparently defined as hunter-gatherer/foraging societies, and this is across a time span of 100 years, and so it's possible that overtime, and when a society changes how it subsists, that the roles of men and women may diverge or specialise further, with a greater focus on the inherent abilities of each, whilst also still allowing for outliers in each:


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Footprints

Poll: 4 in 10 Californians are considering leaving due to cost of living

Ria Roebuck Joseph
Just the News
Wed, 28 Jun 2023 23:00 UTC
movers california
California's homes cost more per square foot to build and are continually rising.

The lure of California has enticed many to make this state their home. Great weather, beaches, opportunity, and being among the top 5 economies in the world, all factor in its attraction. But whether these elements are sufficient to retain residents is something yet to be seen.

A The California Community Poll at the beginning of June shows that about 43% of Californians believe the state is heading in the wrong direction, 28% have mixed feelings about the direction of the state while another 28% think it is going in the right direction. One percent aren't sure. With 1,354 interviews, the poll's margin of error is +/- 2.7%.

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Marijuana

Luxembourg legalises cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home


RTL
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:14 UTC
cannabis
It's official: Luxembourg deputies greenlit a bill on Wednesday that allows for limited cannabis cultivation and consumption at home.

38 deputies voted in favour of the bill, with 22 against. The parties DP, LSAP, Déi Gréng, déi Lénk and ADR had already announced in advance that they were in clear favour of bill 8033.

A repressive policy towards drugs is "an absolute failure", said Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson (Déi Gréng) at the end of the debate. For that reason, "we must dare to take another path" and "seek solutions".

Her party colleague Josée Lorsché remarked: "It's not a question of trivialising or promoting cannabis", but with this bill "it is a question of combating drug-related crime and the sale of cannabis on the black market." She added that this would also lead to better quality products, as those offered on the illegal drug market are "more harmful to the health of users".

Comment: This comes amidst a number of other countries, mostly those in the West, seeking to legalise, or at least decriminalize, a number of prohibited drugs, particularly cannabis, as well as a recent report from the UN documenting the surge in drug trafficking:

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Opec bans reporters from conference amid falling crude prices


Middle East Eye
Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:00 UTC
Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud
© AFPSaudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud arrives for 35th Opec and non-Opec ministerial meeting in Vienna, Austria, on 4 June 2023
Opec has cancelled accreditation for reporters from three major news organisations ahead of a conference in Vienna where the head of BP and the European Union's top energy official are set to speak.

The Saudi-led oil cartel withdrew accreditation from Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg, the latter reported on Wednesday.

"We are very concerned by the prospect of OPEC excluding certain journalists, including from Bloomberg, from next week's seminar," Bloomberg News said in a statement.

"For the sake of market transparency, we strongly advocate for OPEC to allow journalists from relevant global news outlets to attend."

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