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Biden to end familial DNA testing at border, key deterrent to fraud and child trafficking

John Solomon, Addison Smith
Just the News
Tue, 23 May 2023 18:15 UTC
Border testing
© Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesBorder DNA testing
The Biden administration is set to end familial DNA testing at the US-Mexico border, which has been key to preventing the fraudulent entry of many illegal immigrants and mitigating child trafficking, according to a memo obtained by Just The News.

The DNA testing was originally implemented in the Trump-era and utilized by Customs Border Protection - following a court order related to the separation of migrant children from their families and evidence drug cartels were using children to create fake family units to sneak illegal immigrants across the border.

But over the weekend, a CBP memo sent to frontline border agents announced the testing will cease when its vendor contract expires this month.

"The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) familial DNA contract with BODE Technologies will end on May 31, 2023 and all familial DNA testing will conclude on that date," the memo reads.

File: LEAKED MEMO_Redacted.pdf
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City Council votes to accept donation of controversial LAPD robot dog

Brittny Mejia
Los Angeles Times
Tue, 23 May 2023 19:44 UTC
Los Angeles, March 7 City Council, no robot dog
© Irfan Khan / Los Angeles TimesAn audience member at a March 7 City Council meeting voices opposition to the proposed donation of a dog-like robot to the LAPD.
Amid lingering concerns about surveillance and safety, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to accept the donation of a nearly $280,000 dog-like robot for the Police Department's use.

The 8-4 vote followed more than a dozen public comments urging council members to vote against the controversial device, which would be paid for with a donation from the Los Angeles Police Foundation.

Council members also approved a plan to have the Los Angeles Police Department provide quarterly reports on deployment of the device, including where and why it was deployed, the outcome and any issues.

"This item is being painted as merely an acceptance of a donation, but it really represents an expansion of the current boundaries around policing and surveillance," Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez said before voting no. "This is not the vision of the community that I believe Los Angeles should be."

Although the vote was a majority in favor, none of the council members Tuesday explained why they endorsed the move. Councilmember Traci Park, who voted for the device, previously dismissed the suggestion that the robot would put the department "on a path towards a dystopian, Orwellian future of state surveillance."
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Mr. Potato

"Terrified Of A Bud Light Situation": Target Pulls Pride Month Products In Certain Stores Amid Boycott Calls


Zero Hedge
Wed, 24 May 2023 13:35 UTC
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One week after Target CEO Brian Cornell revealed that "woke" capitalism is "great" for their brand and "the right thing for society," the mega-retailer has been scrambling to avoid a disastrous "Bud Light moment" by forcing some stores to remove LGBTQ Pride merchandise as consumer boycott calls mount.

A Target insider told Fox News that South and rural America stores are removing controversial LGBT-themed products ahead of June Pride month to avoid further backlash. Some products ranged from "tuck-friendly" swimsuits for transgender people to gender-fluid coffee mugs. The insider said the reasoning behind such an abrupt move is "to avoid the kind of backlash Bud Light has received in recent weeks."

Facing a potential sales-slamming debacle akin to the 24% hit Bud Light has taken, the person said an "emergency" conference call was held with store managers and senior district directors last Friday to dismantle Pride sections on retail floors.
"We were given 36 hours, told to take all of our Pride stuff, the entire section, and move it into a section that's a third the size. From the front of the store to the back of the store, you can't have anything on mannequins and no large signage," the insider said.



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Book 2

Teen reportedly arrested after handing out bibles - his response proves he isn't backing down on the gospel

Ole Braatelien
The Western Journal
Sun, 21 May 2023 17:22 UTC
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An arsonist, a cross-dresser and a Christian walk into a bar. Which one gets arrested?

Oh, you know that one?

Well, Josh Alexander, a 16-year-old follower of Christ, wasn't at a bar when he was arrested on Wednesday: He was handing out Bibles at a protest in Canada.

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NPC

Woke pro-abortion NYC professor FIRED after threatening NY Post reporter with machete

Darian Douraghy
The Post Millennial
Tue, 23 May 2023 00:01 UTC
Shellyne Rodriguez hunter college
Shellyne Rodriguez, the pro-abortion teacher who was filmed threatening a reporter by holding a machete to his neck, has reportedly been fired from her job as a professor at Hunter College.

"Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action," school spokesman Vince Dimiceli told The New York Post.

"Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school."

Comment: Sounds like a lovely person.

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France bans short-haul flights to cut carbon emissions


BBC
Tue, 23 May 2023 16:00 UTC
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© Image source, EPA/ Getty ImagesClimate activists had proposed scrapping plane journeys where train journeys of under four hours existed.
France has banned domestic short-haul flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to cut carbon emissions.

The law came into force two years after lawmakers had voted to end routes where the same journey could be made by train in under two-and-a-half hours.

The ban all but rules out air travel between Paris and cities including Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux, while connecting flights are unaffected.

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Mission creep: German government report names the pandemic as a precedent for environmental policy

eugyppius
eugyppius: a plague chronicle
Mon, 22 May 2023 00:01 UTC
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The real Long Covid is a political disease and we have yet to learn the extent of it.

The Advisory Council on the Environment is a body of experts convened by the Federal Republic of Germany to advise the state on matters of environmental policy. I'm grateful to @tomdabassman on Twitter for drawing attention to their recent and deeply creepy 200-page report on "The obligation of policymakers: Facilitating environmentally friendly behaviour." It abounds in remarkable and revealing statements, and I've spent a good part of the day studying it for a longer post that I hope to write in the coming weeks.

For now, I want to draw your attention to the introduction, which is bad enough. Its authors depart from the premise that the state currently lacks "policy measures ... targeting environmentally relevant behaviour," and join others in affirming that it is the job of the state to nudge individual decisions in the right direction. Tellingly, both the pandemic and the sanctions-induced European energy crisis play a very large role in their thinking:

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NPC

UK: Teacher who 'misgendered' pupil banned from profession

Louisa Clarence-Smith
The Telegraph
Mon, 22 May 2023 20:35 UTC
joshua sutcliffe
© Darren JackJoshua Sutcliffe was the subject of a disciplinary hearing at Cherwell School after the transgender pupil’s parent complained that he was misgendering her child.
Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian who also spoke out against gay marriage, says he is 'devastated' by ruling finding him guilty of misconduct.

A Christian teacher has been banned from the profession for "misgendering" a pupil in a case believed to be the first of its kind in the UK.

Joshua Sutcliffe, 33, was ruled by the Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA) to have failed to treat a pupil with "dignity and respect". He was also found to have failed to protect the pupil's wellbeing when he did not use the preferred pronouns of a girl who identified as a boy.

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Ukraine is not a symbol of freedom & liberal democracy. It is a corrupt warmongering proxy of the US and the Western globalist elites

Iain Muir
Scotland Today
Wed, 10 May 2023 06:39 UTC
zelensky
Statements from the U.S. and other Western officials, as well as pervasive accounts in the news media, have created a stunningly misleading image of Ukraine. There has been a concerted effort to portray the country not only as a victim of brutal Russian aggression but as a plucky and noble bulwark of freedom and democracy. The conventional narrative would have us believe that Ukraine is an Eastern European version of Denmark.

The promoters of that narrative contend that the ongoing war is not just a quarrel between Russia and Ukraine over Kiev's ambitions to join NATO and Moscow's territorial claims in Crimea and the Donbas. No, they insist — the war is part of a global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a leader worthy of nothing less than Winston Churchill's legacy. President Biden, in his March 26 remarks on the war, said the conflict was "a battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force."

CNN's John Blake literally compared Ukraine's cause to America's in its Revolutionary War. He claimed Ukrainians "are building their own monuments to democracy, with their blood." The world, he said, "has been transfixed by their battle to repel the mighty Russian army and preserve the birth of democracy in their homeland." He added that "the war in Ukraine isn't just a geopolitical struggle — it's a call to remember. The courage of the Ukrainian people is a reminder of what the U.S. used to be — a 'beacon of liberty,' where virtually every schoolchild memorised the 'Concord Hymn' poem inscribed at the base of the Minute Man statue."
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Light Sabers

The War on Reality (Revisited)

CJ Hopkins
Consent Factory
Mon, 22 May 2023 05:52 UTC
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© Archive Films/Getty Images
Reality isn't what it used to be. It never really was, but that's another story. This one isn't about reality per se. It's about the War on Reality, the one we're in the middle of, the war that started when the War on Terror was cancelled in the Summer of 2016. It's actually an extension and an evolution of the War on Terror, and the War on Populism, and the rollout of the New Normal in 2020 ... but that is also another story. I want to focus on the war that is raging currently, on the Internet, in people's workplaces, homes, among friends and families, and in people's heads. I'm pretty sure you know the war I'm talking about, regardless of which "side" you feel you are on.

The War on Reality is a civil war, but it is much more than just a civil war. It is an asymmetrical, polymorphous, metastatic, multiplicitous war. An ontological free-for-all. It has no conventions or rules of engagement. There are no battle lines. The battle is everywhere. Alliances shift from day to day. It is chaos, unrelenting, inescapable chaos. An omnipresent, immaterial, omnipotent organism attacking itself. It is continual, and completely unwinnable. It is unwinnable because it has already been won. It ended in victory the moment it began, and now we're doomed to go on fighting it forever, or until some less ethereal leviathan is born, or reborn, out of its ashes.

Unfortunately, that's rather likely, the less ethereal leviathan scenario. It may not come about in my lifetime — and, selfishly, I'm hoping it doesn't — but this state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely. As I wrote in an essay in June of 2021 ...
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