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Turkey's lira suffers longest run of losses in 24 years


Bloomberg
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:22 UTC
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The lira is headed for its longest run of weekly losses this century as Turkey's new economic team curbs its intervention in the currency market.

The Turkish currency depreciated another 1% this week, after last week's 11% slide. It's now been falling since early March, in the longest streak of losses since 1999.

The declines have quickened following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's re-election on May 28. In the 18 months before the vote, the central bank used up nearly $200 billion of reserves trying to bolster the currency, yet it remained one of the worst performers in emerging markets.

Erdogan has now appointed two former Wall Street bankers — Mehmet Simsek and Hafize Gaye Erkan — to run the country's finances, signaling a potential shift from heavy state intervention in favor of allowing the market to determine the currency's fair value.

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House Judiciary Committee: IRS agent used fake identity, spoke aggressively to taxpayer during unannounced house visit

Ashley Oliver
Breitbart
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:17 UTC
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An IRS agent used an alias and false pretenses to make a tax inquiry during a visit to an Ohio resident's home in April, according to the House Judiciary Committee.

Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) laid out the details of the incident, which he described as "bizarre," in a letter Friday to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, asking Werfel for an array of documents related to the matter.

"We have recently received allegations that an Internal Revenue Service agent provided a false name to an Ohio taxpayer as part of a deception to gain entry into the taxpayer's home to confront her about delinquent tax filings," Jordan wrote.

According to Jordan, the allegations included the agent falsely telling the resident, who is the fiduciary of an estate, that his name was "Bill Haus" and that he needed to discuss an issue the IRS had found with her tax filings on the estate.
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Best of the Web: Western struggle sessions: Pupil who questioned classmate 'identifying as a cat' called 'despicable' by teacher

Ewan Somerville
The Telegraph
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:53 UTC
Rye College
© Simon CareyRye College
A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was "despicable" after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.

The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on "life education" in which they were told they can "be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you".

The row, which has infuriated parents, was allegedly sparked by one of them asking a fellow pupil: "How can you identify as a cat when you're a girl?"

Their teacher told them they were being reported to a senior leader and were no longer welcome at the school, part of the Aquinas Trust, a Church of England network of 11 schools, if they continued to express the view that only boys and girls exist.

'They are genuinely unwell - crazy'

The Telegraph has heard a recording of the heated exchange taken by one of the pupils, in which the teacher starts by saying "how dare you - you've just really upset someone" by "questioning their identity".

The pupil responded: "If they want to identify as a cat or something then they are genuinely unwell - crazy."
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Beer

Anheuser-Busch releases 'We hear you' statement over Bud Light backlash: 'Beer is for everyone'


Daily Wire
Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:45 UTC
Bud Light
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Anheuser-Busch released a statement on Friday in response to the backlash that the company triggered earlier this year when one of its brands, Bud Light, decided to partner with a controversial transgender activist for a paid marketing engagement.

Sales for Bud Light have fallen by more than 25% and its competitors have since seen a large increase in their sales. Other brands for Anheuser-Busch have also taken a significant hit, including Budweiser (-11.2%), Michelob Ultra (-6.5%), Busch Light (-5.2%), and Natural Light (-4.9%), according to numbers released late last month.

Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth appeared to acknowledge with his most recent statement that the backlash the company is facing is having a significant impact at the company.

"We recognize that over the last two months, the discussion surrounding our company and Bud Light has moved away from beer, and this has impacted our consumers, our business partners, and our employees," the statement began. "We are a beer company, and beer is for everyone."

He said that the company was "announcing three important actions as we continue to move our business forward" in light of the backlash.

"First, we are investing to protect the jobs of our frontline employees," he said. "Second, we are providing financial assistance to our independent wholesalers to help them support their employees."

Whitworth said in his final point, which was addressed to the company's "valued consumers," that the company "hear[s] you."

"Our summer advertising launches next week, and you can look forward to Bud Light reinforcing what you've always loved about our brand - that it's easy to drink and easy to enjoy," he said. "As we move forward, we will focus on what we do best - brewing great beer and earning our place in moments that matter to you."

Comment: We'll see how long it takes for another major corporation to make a similar misstep as Bud Light and Target as companies are forced to walk the fine line between meeting the ESG and DEI requirements for capital funding and drawing the ire of the masses who want none of it.

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ACLU slammed for tweet defending pedophile and murderer who was executed in Florida


Daily Wire
Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:17 UTC
Duane Owen
© Florida Department of Corrections
The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) faced intense backlash on Friday after it defended convicted pedophile and murderer Duane Owen who was executed by the state of Florida.

"The state of Florida never provided medically necessary gender-affirming care to Duane Owen — causing her enormous suffering," the ACLU claimed, "and violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was in state custody."

Owen's lawyers tried to get him taken off death row by claiming that he was insane, which the state Supreme Court rejected. They also claimed that he was a delusional schizophrenic and was transgender.

Expert psychiatrists testified that Owen showed no signs of either of the mental illnesses — schizophrenia and gender dysphoria, according to CBS News. The report said that the psychiatrists believed that it was an "act."

Owen was sentenced to death for raping and stabbing a 14-year-old to death and raping a 38-year-old, who he beat to death with a hammer — both in 1984. He also attacked two other women, but they both survived.

The tweet elicited strong reactions online from people who called out the insanity of the matter.

"If HE had been executed in a timely manner, it wouldn't have been a problem," actor James Woods said. "Then the loved ones of HIS murdered victims wouldn't have been the ones who actually suffered for thirty years."

Conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted, "The only injustice in Owen's case is that it took the state 40 years to execute him."

Comment: There is a word for the misplaced moral outrage exhibited in this tweet from the ACLU which has become all too common among those who've adopted the Woke ideology:
Paramoralisms: The conviction that moral values exist and that some actions violate moral rules is so common and ancient a phenomenon that it seems to have some substratum at man's instinctive endowment level (although it is certainly not totally adequate for moral truth), and that it does not only represent centuries' of experience, culture, religion, and socialization. Thus, any insinuation framed in moral slogans is always suggestive, even if the "moral" criteria used are just an "ad hoc" invention. Any act can thus be proved to be immoral or moral by means of such paramoralisms utilized as active suggestion, and people whose minds will succumb to such reasoning can always be found.
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Paramoralisms somehow cunningly evades the control of our common sense, sometimes leading to acceptance or approval of behavior that is openly pathological.

Paramoralistic statements and suggestions so often accompany various kinds of evil that they seem quite irreplaceable. Unfortunately, it has become a frequent phenomenon for individuals, oppressive groups, or patho-political systems to invent ever-new moral criteria for someone's convenience. Such suggestions often partially deprive people of their moral reasoning and deform its development in youngsters. Paramoralism factories have been founded worldwide, and a ponerologist finds it hard to believe that they are managed by psychologically normal people.

The conversive features in the genesis of paramoralisms seem to prove they are derived from mostly subconscious rejection (and repression from the field of consciousness) of something completely different, which we call the voice of conscience.


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Bad Guys

Feds quietly drop charges against Democrat donor SBF in multi-billion dollar FTX scam

Jason Walsh
The Daily Fetched
Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:57 UTC
Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of collapsed FTX Crypto exchange and the second biggest Democrat donor in the 2022 midterms, had several charges against him dropped by the feds.

Crypto giant FTX went bankrupt last year, losing billions and wrecking the lives of thousands of crypto investors.

In January, Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to all eight counts related to the sudden collapse of his crypto Ponzi scheme.

On Tuesday, SBF pleaded not guilty in New York to eight charges related to the collapse of his former crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research.

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Bizarro Earth

Swans decapitated in UK, 59% increase in attacks against waterfowl since 2020

Mark Tovey
The Guardian
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:44 UTC
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© Maureen McLean/ShutterstockDevon and Cornwall recorded three separate incidents of swans being decapitated. Police say 59% increase in crimes against swans, ducks and geese in 2020-22 may be 'tip of the iceberg'.
Police recorded a 59% increase in crimes against swans, ducks and geese from 2020 to 2022. The crimes ranged from fireworks and BB guns being shot into duck ponds to swans and geese being strangled and beheaded.

Avon and Somerset police found the remains of two swans in a blood-filled bathtub surrounded by shotgun shells on open land. In Dorset, a decapitated swan was found by an underpass with an arrow sticking out of its body.

Neighbouring Devon and Cornwall recorded three separate incidents of swans being decapitated, as well as a goose that had a stable door slammed and bolted on its neck.

Comment: A great variety of crimes have been on the increase - and across much of the West - and particularly since the contrived coronavirus crisis, the government enforced lockdowns, and the coercion campaigns for the experimental covid vaccines.

Crimes like these, however, are particularly telling because, unlike stealing to feed oneself, or even to feed a drug addiction, they seem to serve a need in some to harm the innocent. That crimes like these are on the rise in especially alarming.

See also: Foster mother from Ukraine rented out refugee orphans to pedophiles from her home in Poland, tortured & sexually abused children herself

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Syringe

Joe Rogan challenges vaccine enthusiast Peter Hotez to debate RFK Jr on 'misinformation'

Darian Douraghy
The Post Millennial
Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:01 UTC
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The well-known comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan announced that he is offering Dr. Peter J. Hotez, who according to his Twitter bio is a professor of pediatrics as well as a "Vaccine Scientist," $100,000 to a charity of his choosing should he debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) on the topic of vaccines.

"Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is 'misinformation' I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you're willing to debate him on my show with no time limit," Rogan announced on Twitter.

Comment: Hotez is a mealy-mouthed, pusillanimous establishment shill who at least subconsciously knows his talking points can't stand up to scrutiny. Although it would be epic, don't hold your breath on a debate materializing. He knows full well RFK will mop the floor with him.

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Murder of Romani youth by Ukrainian in Czechia causes tensions between groups and locals to rise

Aneta Zachová
EURACTIV
Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:00 UTC
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© EPA-EFE/LUKAS KABONAlthough the police have not officially confirmed it, according to several sources, the attacker was a man of Ukrainian nationality, and the victim was a Romani youth.
A murder in Czechia - with sources alleging that the murderer was Ukrainian - has sparked tensions between the Ukrainian and Romani communities, while nationalists aim to capitalise on the tragedy.

A 23-year-old man was murdered in the Czech city of Brno on Saturday. Although the police have not officially confirmed it, according to several sources, the attacker was a man of Ukrainian nationality, and the victim was a Romani youth. The mayor of Brno city district Bystrc also confirmed the suspect was Ukrainian.

"We want the guilty party who committed this atrocity to be properly punished and the troublesome - and I stress again, troublesome - Ukrainians to be expelled," said Žaneta Plachetková, one of the planned demonstration organisers.


Comment: One could infer this isn't an isolated incident. Footage taken in other countries has emerged online showing what appear to be Ukrainian refugees engaging in racist and anti-Russian behaviour.


Comment: The article is lacking in a number of relevant details, such as: was this Ukrainian a refugee or migrant? Were they followers of the Nazi ideology that has overwhelmed some regions and communities in Ukraine? Was this murder connected to criminal gangs? Were tensions between these groups and locals present prior to the incident, and, if so, why? Further, whilst it may not be related, it is notable that the Nazis - whom some extreme groups in Ukraine seek to emulate - targeted the Romani community.

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Californians terrified to say what 'everyone knows' about trans athletes in girls' sports

Susannah Luthi
The Washington free Beacon
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:33 UTC
Pro-women's sports protesters
© Getty ImagesPro-women's sports protesters
Frustrated California moms have resorted to group texts and encrypted messaging apps to say the unspeakable: It's not fair that boys are competing against their teenage girls.

Nearly two dozen California mothers, coaches, and activists in interviews were dismayed by the increasingly visible presence of transgender-identifying boys in girls' sports. Yet all but a few declined to speak on the record, citing concerns about loss of reputation, livelihood, or athletic dreams.

"Most are in agreement that trans kids should have their own category, but no one can say that out loud," said Keri Olson, a former UCLA tennis player who belongs to a secret chat group of Southern California women who do not want their high-school aged daughters to be forced to play sports with bigger and stronger males.

The climate of fear is striking given that Americans overwhelmingly oppose letting transgender athletes play against girls even as that is rapidly becoming the rule. According to a Gallup poll published this week, nearly 70 percent of Americans think sports participation should be determined according to biological sex. Meanwhile, a pending update of Title IX by the Biden administration would require schools to default to allowing students to play on teams according to their gender identity.
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