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Number of 'non-binary' students in US state skyrockets


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:52 UTC
LGBT indoctrination
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New Jersey enrollment figures reveal a 4,000% jump in gender-non-conforming children since 2019.

The number of students in New Jersey public schools who openly identify as "non-binary" has gone up by a staggering 4,000% in the past four years, according to enrollment data published by the state's Department of Education.

The report, which sets out the number of pre-kindergarten to kindergarten and 12th grade students, indicates that there were a total of 675 students who identified as gender-non-conforming in the 2022-2023 school year. In the year of 2019-2020, by comparison, that number was just 16. It's also noted that of all the 'non-binary' students in New Jersey this year, 41 were still in elementary school.

Meanwhile, New Jersey's democratic leaders have been arguing that schools should not be obligated to inform parents about their children's sexual or gender identity.

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Former Business Secretary Peter Mandelson was due to stay at Jeffrey Epstein's New York townhouse while he was in jail for underage sex crimes

Christian Oliver
Daily Mail
Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:27 UTC
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Peter Mandelson (pictured) was scheduled to have four meetings with Jeffrey Epstein after the tycoon served time in prison for having sex with underage girls
Peter Mandelson was due to stay at convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's New York townhouse while he was in jail for underage sex crimes, a JPMorgan internal report has alleged.

Lord Mandelson, 69, who served as a minister in both Tony Blair's and then Gordon Brown's Labour governments, and was at one time considered the de facto deputy prime minister, is claimed to have held repeat meetings with the disgraced financier. The report claims he was due to stay in his Manhattan home while Epstein was serving time in prison for soliciting prostitution from a girl below age 18.

The 22-page internal report, prepared by JPMorgan Chase after Epstein's arrest in 2019, also claims that Mandelson was known to the convicted paedophile as 'Petie'.

Comment: See also: New trove of Jeffrey Epstein's files entries reveals pedophile's powerful connections

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Fire

Norfolk Southern engineer raised concern about train ahead of derailment

Zack Budryk
The Hill
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:44 UTC
NTSB
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A Norfolk Southern engineer expressed concerns to a supervisor about the length of the train that would later derail in East Palestine, Ohio, but the reservations went unaddressed, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

The NTSB report released Thursday said the engineer from Decatur, Ill., expressed the concerns to the yardmaster but was told, "Well, this is what they [Norfolk Southern] want."

The engineer reportedly told investigators:
"If you talk to the manager, they said this train was 100 percent rule compliant," adding, "To me, in my opinion, you got 32 percent of the weight on the headend. Twenty percent in the middle and 40 percent weight on the rearend. So, to me, that's why we reported that to the yardmaster and like I said, this is what they want."
The NTSB announced an investigation in March into the company's safety practices, about a month after the East Palestine derailment put national scrutiny on the railway. The agency released a trove of documents Thursday in connection with a two-day field hearing in the Ohio town investigating the accident.

Comment: Train wreck Biden is now a railroad expert?

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CNN could be put up for sale — and ex-CEO Jeff Zucker wants it, sources say

Alexandra Steigrad, Josh Kosman
New York Post
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:28 UTC
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© Getty ImagesJeff Zucker
Speculation is growing that Warner Bros. Discovery will sell CNN in the coming year — and the struggling cable network's former CEO Jeff Zucker has emerged as a possible suitor, sources told The Post.

The 58-year-old Zucker is among the contenders to buy the ratings-challenged network, insiders say — despite the fact that he was ousted from the company more than a year and a half ago over his undisclosed relationship with former CNN flack Allison Gollust.

Sources say Zucker sees a big opportunity at CNN ahead of the 2024 presidential election after ex-CEO Chris Licht's strategy to revamp the network's programming to appeal to a more centrist audience flopped, sending ratings and ad revenue tumbling.

"Jeff is likely going to make a bid this fall to purchase," said a source with knowledge.

People who know Zucker add that buying and running CNN again would be the exec's "ultimate revenge" after his untimely exit from the network early last year, in which he was also accused of overly cozy ties with disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Comment: Buy it and bury it.

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Control Panel

Universal Basic Income & the anti-human agenda

Zoë Carter
Off-Guardian
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00 UTC
universal basic income
£1,600 per month is set to be paid to participants in a "Universal Basic Income (UBI) 'micro pilot scheme'" - the first such trial in England.

A total of 30 people from central Jarrow in Tyne & Wear and East Finchley in north London will be studied to assess the effect receiving UBI has on their mental and physical health. A control group, who won't be paid the UBI, will also be monitored.

Participants will be randomly selected from a pool of volunteers, with 20% of places reserved for people with disabilities.

At the time of writing, the trial has yet to begin, as funding hasn't been secured, but it is expected to come from local/combined authorities, or 'private philanthropic sources.'

In Wales, a scheme is already underway which pays this same monthly amount of money (£1,600) to young people leaving Care. (I have to resist the urge to put ironic quotation marks around that last word; but perhaps it's a slightly less nauseating phrase than the mealy-mouthed 'looked-after children'.)

While the stated aim is to support young Care-leavers, rather than advance the UBI concept, the Welsh government acknowledges that the two-year pilot scheme is a 'contribution to a global movement' as one of around eighty UBI trials taking place globally.

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Fire

Mama Mia è Stupido! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75%

Carl Campanile and Kevin Sheehan
New York Post
Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:53 UTC
wood-fired pizza
© Gregory P. MangoThe New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice carbon emissions by up to 75%.
Mamma Mia!

Historic Big Apple pizza joints could be forced to dish out mounds of dough under a proposed city edict targeting pollutant-spewing coal-and-wood-fired ovens, The Post has learned.

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice carbon emissions by up to 75%.

"All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality," DEP spokesman Ted Timbers said in a statement Sunday. "This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible."
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1 dead, 9 injured, after rollercoaster derails in Sweden


The Guardian
Sun, 25 Jun 2023 17:25 UTC
jetline
Witnesses say Jetline ride, which reaches 55mph and heights of 30 metres, partly left the tracks
One person has been killed and nine injured, including children, in a rollercoaster accident at an amusement park in Stockholm.

Witnesses said the Jetline ride at the Gröna Lund theme park had partly derailed during a ride on Sunday, sending people crashing to the ground.

"This is tragic and shocking, and regrettably we've learned that one person has died," Gröna Lund spokesperson Annika Troselius told public broadcaster SVT.

Ambulances, fire trucks and a helicopter were seen arriving at the park, and police launched an investigation.

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Just 2 months ago, April 7th, a roller coaster at France's Futuroscope leisurepark caught fire injuring 2:
[Machine translation from French] A woman and a teenage girl were injured on Friday morning April 7 in the fire of a wagon at a flagship attraction at Futuroscope, a leisure park near Poitiers, said the prosecution, which opened an investigation. Between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., "a lithium battery located on the second carriage of a train" the Objective Mars roller coaster "caught fire at the end of the course. The fire was quickly brought under control by the teams on site", explained the management of Futuroscope.
Futuroscope
Le Parisien and Futuroscope
The TF1 channel broadcast a video filmed by a witness, showing two men with fire extinguishers extinguishing flames under the seats of the wagons, under the cries of panic of visitors. According to the Poitiers prosecutor's office, the two injured are a woman from Vendée, with second degree burns, who was treated in hospital before being able to leave the CHU in the afternoon, and a schoolgirl from Toulouse, slightly burnt leg. In addition, 24 employees of the park inconvenienced by the fumes were taken care of on the spot, specifies the parquet floor.

The attraction is closed until further notice

The investigation was entrusted to the research brigade of the Poitiers gendarmerie company to "to establish the exact causes of this accident". "Closed until further notice"according to the leisure park, the Objectif Mars attraction was put into service in March 2020 and has "subject to daily checks as well as complete maintenance recommended by the manufacturer"argues management.

Futuroscope was created in 1987. It welcomes nearly two million visitors a year, making it the fourth busiest amusement park in France after Disneyland Paris, Parc Astérix and Puy du Fou, according to the park. poitevin.


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Bizarro Earth

Cocaine market booming, meth trafficking spreads - UN report


Al Jazeera
Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:42 UTC
cocaine drug trafficking
© Rodrigo Sura/EPACocaine seizures have grown faster than production, containing the total supply to some extent, the UN report says
Cocaine demand and supply are booming worldwide and methamphetamine trafficking is expanding beyond established markets, including in Afghanistan where the drug is now being produced, says a United Nations report.

The number of people taking drugs rose by 23 percent to 296 million in 2021 - the most recent year for which data is available - from 240 million in 2011, according to the annual World Drug Report published by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) late on Sunday.

The UNODC said only half the increase can be attributed to the world's population growth during the period.

Comment: The US has been reporting record seizures of drugs, in addition to record number of deaths due to overdose, as well as lockdown-related deaths of 'despair':

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Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine - 2nd time in 6 months in US

Ramon Antonio Vargas
The Guardian
Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:34 UTC
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A worker at San Antonio's international airport died after being sucked into a jet's engine late on Friday, officials said.
A source briefed directly on the case told the Guardian on Sunday that it appeared the worker had "intentionally stepped in front of the live engine" on the jet and that police were investigating that aspect. But the cause of the worker's death hadn't officially been determined on Sunday, and the source spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation into the case was still pending.

The worker's death occurred at about 10.25pm as a Delta Air Lines jet which had just arrived from Los Angeles was taxiing to an arrival gate, US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials said in a statement.

Officials added that the worker - whose identity has not been publicly released - was ingested into the one engine which the plane in question had on at the time.

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How lockdown broke a generation (and no one seems to care)

Joanna Williams
The Telegraph
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:15 UTC
lockdown children
Despite a damning weight of evidence, the national Covid inquiry has - so far - shown little interest in acknowledging lockdown's impact on children
Every day new evidence emerges of the harms of lockdown on children. Researchers find rising numbers of those with eating disorders and social anxiety, or who are self-harming and dropping out of school. And that's far from an exhaustive list.

The fact our young suffered the effects of lockdown in many more ways than we could ever have predicted has left parents, schools and the healthcare system reeling in the virus's wake. But today, little is being done.

Over the pandemic's course, the number of youngsters seeking help for mental health problems soared, jumping from an estimated 12.1 per cent of children in 2017 to 17.8 per cent in 2022. The youngest children - those aged between seven and 10 - saw the biggest increase. But adolescent mental health issues have also become more prevalent, with new research this week showing that lockdowns fuelled a staggering 42 per cent rise in eating disorders among teenagers - the sharpest rise being in girls aged between 13 and 16 - and led to a similar increase in incidents of self-harm.

The lead author of the latest study suggests that social isolation, anxiety, disruption in education and over exposure to negative social media influences left many children feeling they had lost control over their lives, and that this could have contributed to the development of eating disorders. Hospital admissions because of eating disorders had their sharpest annual increase in the year after the pandemic, rising from 5,950 among under-18s to 7,767.

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