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'Miracle, miracle': Lone children survive 40 days in Amazon jungle

Mat Youkee, Emma Graham-Harrison
The Guardian
Sat, 10 Jun 2023 14:45 UTC
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© Colombian army/AFP/Getty ImagesThe wreckage of the Cessna was found two weeks after it disappeared.
The four Indigenous children were the only survivors of a plane crash that killed their mother...

A few tantalising clues kept the rescuers going. The remains of fruit with bitemarks made by small human teeth, a pair of scissors and nappies in the rainforest mud. All offered hope that four children, who had miraculously survived a plane crash that killed their mother, the pilot and the only other adult on board, also survived the dangers of the Amazon.

The oldest was only 13 when the plane went down on 1 May in southern Colombia. The youngest would mark his first birthday lost under the dense green canopy of trees and vegetation, alive with jaguars, poisonous snakes and other threats.

The children are Lesly Jacobo Bonbaire, 13; Solecni Ranoque Mucutuy, 9; Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy, 4; and Cristian Neryman Ranoque Mucutuy, now one.

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National poll shows sharp divides over gender identity, pronoun use

Mark Murray
NBC News
Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:48 UTC
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© Hector Vivas / Getty Images filePeople wave pride flags in Mexico City during the Mexico City Pride Parade on June 25, 2022.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they believe there are only two gender identities, versus 34% who disagree.

A new national poll from PRRI finds Americans' views on gender identity, pronoun use and teaching about same-sex relationships in school deeply divided by party affiliation, age and religion.

Overall, 65% of all Americans believe there are only two gender identities, while 34% disagree and say there are many gender identities.

But inside those numbers are sharp differences. Fully 90% of Republicans say there are just two genders, versus 66% of independents and 44% of Democrats who believe the same.

Comment: It is encouraging that two-thirds of Americans can still perceive reality.

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The Truckers Won. Everything.

Kulak
Anarchonomicon
Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:08 UTC
freedom convoy truckers ontario supporters
© The southern arm of the convoy of truckers passed through Cambridge along the 401Supporters greet a convoy of transport trucks, cars and pickup trucks on Highway 401 in Kitchener. The vehicles were part of a protest convoy on its way to Ottawa to demonstrate against vaccination mandates for COVID-19. January 2022
I keep encountering this misconception from people who don't follow Canadian politics...

That somehow the Trucker convoy was defeated.

The Freedom Convoy was the most wildly immediately successful protest in Canadian history, maybe WORLD history.

People remember Trudeau's crackdown, old ladies having their skulls cracked with batons, Disabled indigenous grandmothers trampled by police horses, Bank accounts frozen and public employees investigated for mere donations...

And there's a big reason people remember this... It was dramatic, and the media and the regime certainly wanted you to think resistance was futile...
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Refugee stabs children in French playground attack


RT
Sat, 10 Jun 2023 16:21 UTC
guys confer
© Olivier Chassignole/AFPSecurity personnel gather in Annecy, France following mass stabbing
A man carrying a Syrian identity card was arrested by police after he injured several minors, some as young as three, according to BFM TV...

Several small children were among the victims of a gruesome knife attack on a playground in the alpine town of Annecy in southeastern France on Thursday morning, French authorities have reported.

"Several people including children were injured by an individual armed with a knife in a square in Annecy. The individual was arrested thanks to the very rapid intervention of the police." French minister of the interior, Gerald Darmanin, stated in a Tweet.

"The situation is under control, there is no longer any danger" reassured the mayor of Annecy, Francois Astorg.

Many other high-profile officials have since condemned the attack and expressed solidarity with the families of the victims. French President Emmanuel Macron described the incident as an "attack of absolute cowardice."

While no official details about the arrest or the exact number of people injured have been published, local media reports, citing sources within the police, have suggested that as many as four children around the age of three were injured in the attack, as well as two adults. Three are believed to be in critical condition at a nearby hospital.
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Best of the Web: Child Sacrifice Cult: California bill would punish parents who don't 'affirm' their child's gender identity

Susannah Luthi
The Washington Free Beacon
Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:00 UTC
girl at parade
© Getty ImagesGay Pride Festival
A newly revised California bill would treat parents' refusal to "affirm" their child's gender identity as a violation of health, safety, and welfare in the context of custody disputes.

The bill, which has already passed the State Assembly, would require judges adjudicating such disputes over transgender-identifying children to favor the parent who "affirms" the child's preferred identity. Earlier this week the authors released an updated version that specifically defines "the health, safety, and welfare" of a child to include "a parent's affirmation of the child's gender identity" — a change that the bill's opponents worry will open the door to non-affirmation being treated as abuse.

Erin Friday, a San Francisco attorney and co-lead of the parent coalition Our Duty:
"When you say that gender affirmation is in the child's best interest for health, safety, and welfare, it takes nothing to say [non-affirmation] is now abuse — because you're not taking care of the health, safety, and welfare if you're not affirming them."
The amended bill, known as A.B. 957, is the latest in a slate of legislation to enshrine left-wing gender ideology in California law. State senator Scott Wiener (D.), who coauthored A.B. 957 with Assemblywoman Lori Wilson (D.), is simultaneously advancing a separate bill that would require foster parents to promise to "affirm" trans-identifying children. In 2022, he introduced a first-in-the-nation law enshrining California as a "haven" where out-of-state minors can obtain sex changes without their parents' consent.

Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R.) declared last year that helping kids get sex changes is child abuse.
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Thousands of Romanian teachers protest low wages, strike enters 3rd week


Press TV
Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:38 UTC
Romania protest
© ReutersPeople march during a teachers' protest over wages, in Bucharest, Romania, on June 9, 2023.
Thousands of Romanian teachers have poured into the streets of the capital Bucharest to demand higher salaries and better working conditions, as a third week of general strikes came to an end.

An estimated 10,000 protesters gathered in front of government headquarters in central Bucharest on Friday, to denounce low wages while carrying banners against the government's economic policies.

Teachers in Romania have been on strike since May - their first since 2005-- with thousands chanting "Dignity", "We dare" and "We won't give in."

The trade unions have been asking for a 25-percent increase in teachers' salaries, as well as overtime pay, inflation indexing and more supplies.

Comment: As inflation and energy prices continue to soar, particularly in the sanction-happy West, strikes and protests are on the rise, and, with no end in sight, especially for the US and the EU, it's likely that unrest will follow:

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Taliban sharply reduces opium cultivation in Afghanistan

Abubakar Siddique
RFE/RL
Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:25 UTC
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Taliban security personnel destroy a poppy plantation in Sher Surkh village of Kandahar Province in April.
The Taliban appears to have sharply reduced opium cultivation in Afghanistan, the world's largest producer of the illicit drug.

In April 2022, the militant group banned the cultivation, production, and trafficking of all illicit narcotics.

Annual opium cultivation has dropped by as much as 80 percent compared to last year, according to new research by David Mansfield, a leading expert on Afghanistan's drugs trade who worked with Alcis, a British firm specializing in satellite analysis.

Mansfield said the Taliban had "exceeded expectations and reduced poppy cultivation to levels not seen since 2001," when the militant group was ousted from power by the U.S.-led invasion.

Around 80 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan comes from the southern province of Helmand. Mansfield said satellite imagery appeared to show that in Helmand "poppy cultivation has fallen from more than 120,000 hectares in 2022 to less than 1,000 hectares in 2023."
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Chinese bank issues record $2.82 billion to country's agricultural sector for food security, reduced harvest expected due to abnormal weather


Xinhua
Sat, 10 Jun 2023 12:00 UTC
china farm
The Agricultural Bank of China, one of the country's largest commercial lenders, has issued 20 billion yuan (about 2.8 billion U.S. dollars) of special financial bonds to support rural development.

Raised funds will mainly be used to strengthen grain security and the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas.

The bonds were well-received by investors in the interbank bond market, with the subscription ratio reaching 2.1 times, according to the bank.

The bank said it would fully leverage the role of financial services in supporting the country's agricultural development and continue to channel more capital into promoting rural revitalization.

Comment: Reuters provides more details:
Agricultural Bank of China issued 20 billion yuan ($2.82 billion) in agricultural special bonds into the interbank market on Friday, a record amount for such bonds, with an issue rate of 2.65%, the state-owned Securities Times reported.

Concerns over food security have mounted in China where the largest wheat-growing province of Henan, its grain already damaged by wetter-than-normal weather, is expected to receive more rain in the coming days, according to state forecasters, complicating harvest operations.

China, the world's top producer of grain, had been expecting a bumper crop this year.

China is used to floods and droughts but abnormal weather patterns, including excessive rain and relentless heatwaves, are also affecting the country's rice-growing southern provinces, risking devastation to key crops and a squeeze on supplies.

The bonds have been issued to "serve the construction of a strong agricultural country," the Security Times report said. ($1 = 7.0935 Chinese yuan renminbi)
Meanwhile Western governments are threatening to throw farmers out of business in pursuit of a nefarious 'green' agenda:

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Bullseye

Leaked: Transcript of Tucker's un-aired final monologue at Fox

Mark Steffen
Trending Politics
Sat, 10 Jun 2023 16:29 UTC
tucker carlson new twitter show
© Tucker Carlson/TwitterTucker Carlson opens his new broadcast on Twitter
Journalist Emerald Robinson has obtained a copy of Tucker Carlson's final monologue he planned to deliver before leaving Fox News, and it is every bit as explosive as viewers would come to expect from the conservative provocateur.

Robinson, posting on Emerald.TV, laid out Carlson's full transcript which took aim at Jen Psaki, President Joe Biden's former White House Press Secretary, as well as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for attempting to cancel his show.
"She's demanding that our show be canceled because the things we're saying are quote, 'very clearly an incitement to violence.' Is this true? Even accounting for the fact that people tend to hear what they want to hear, it is not true. It's a lie, as anyone who watches this show knows. We are opposed to violence, not just philosophically but in practical terms. We're against violent crime — the strong oppressing the weak. We're against the horrors of late-term abortion and state-encouraged euthanasia. And above all we're passionately opposed to the violent and pointless cruelty of the war in Ukraine, which the Biden Administration could end at any moment, thus saving the lives of innocents, but is instead prolonging purely for ideological reasons. Those are the things we dislike the most — the acts of violence our leaders endorse. Ocasio-Cortes is one of those leaders. She supports every one of those indefensible things, from abortion in the ninth month of pregnancy to extending the carnage in Ukraine. Who, honestly, is on the side of violence?"

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OECD says UK to avoid recession but will have highest inflation rate in G20

LaToya Harding
Yahoo! News
Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:08 UTC
UK chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt recession britain
© Frank Augstein/APUK chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt
The OECD said that chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s tax raid will put pressure on UK households over the coming years as people continue to battle an ongoing cost of living crisis.
The UK is set to avoid a recession this year, but is expected to grow just 0.3%, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has revealed.

The new figure comes as an upgrade from a 0.2% downturn it had previously predicted, while GDP is anticipated to rise 1% next year, rather than the 0.9% in the previous forecasts thanks to an improvement in real income growth.

"The high interest burden on public debt and the recent drop in average debt maturity leave the public finances exposed to movements in bond yields," it said.

Comment: Somehow 'global' doesn't seem to include Russia and its economic allies. Curious, eh?

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