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Russia extends WSJ reporter's detention until August


Al Jazeera
Tue, 23 May 2023 12:00 UTC
Evan Gershkovich
© Evgenia Novozhenina/ReutersThe Wall Street Journal said the accusations against Evan Gershkovich's are 'demonstrably false'
A Russian court has extended the detention of Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich by three months, ordering the 31-year-old American citizen to be held until August 30.

Gershkovich was arrested in March on espionage charges while on a reporting trip in Russia and formally detained in April. He, his employer and the US government have denied the charges.

Tuesday's pre-trial hearing was not announced in advance, and the entire case has been wrapped in secrecy.

Comment: Russia isn't in the business of keeping US professionals detained for show trial reasons, as demonstrated with the Brittney Griner story - the US, however, is; as we saw with Maria Butina - and so it seems likely that this journalist is being detained for reasons other than simple reporting.

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Norway advises against child sex changes, joins Finland, Sweden, and UK in rejecting gender ideology

Dr. Debra Soh
Washington Examiner
Sat, 13 May 2023 07:00 UTC
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Common sense and science are gradually prevailing.

Last week, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board announced it would be revising its current guidelines regarding so-called " gender -affirming care" for minors because it no longer considers them to be evidence-based. The board also acknowledged that the growing number of teenage girls identifying as male post-puberty remains under-studied.

Under the proposed updated guidelines, the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transition-related surgery would be restricted to research contexts and no longer provided in clinical settings. Norway joins Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom in introducing greater safeguarding for children. In the United States, eight states thus far have banned affirmative care for individuals under 18, with Tennessee being the latest to pass such legislation.

Comment: Slovakia also recently motioned that it will push through a proposal so that it is no longer legal for people to 'change their gender'; and, tellingly, this seems to have largely come about because there's a general election later in the year.

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Target brass hold 'emergency' meeting over LGBTQ merchandise in some stores to avoid 'Bud Light situation'

Brian Flood
Fox News
Tue, 23 May 2023 18:07 UTC
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© Brian Flood/Fox NewsTarget has been criticized by conservatives for the over-the-top Pride displays, with children's items particularly irking many customers.
Some southern Target stores were forced by the corporation to move LGBTQ Pride merchandise away from the front of their locations after customer "outrage" to avoid a "Bud Light situation."

Many Target locations across the country feature massive June Pride month displays on an annual basis, with items this year ranging from "tuck friendly" bathing suits for transgender people to mugs that say "gender fluid." But the retail juggernaut has been criticized by some conservatives for the displays, with children's items particularly irking many customers.

A Target insider told Fox News Digital that many locations, mostly in rural areas of the south, have relocated Pride sections to avoid the kind of backlash Bud Light has received in recent weeks after using a transgender influencer in a promotional campaign.

A Target insider said there were "emergency" calls on Friday and some managers and district senior directors were told to tamp down the Pride sections immediately.

Comment: Customer goes on a walk-through:



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Report: Fox News instructed producers not to bash Dylan Mulvaney — trans ideology, woke culture enforced in workplace

Mary Margaret Olohan
The Daily Signal
Mon, 22 May 2023 17:50 UTC
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Bud Light transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and Tucker Carlson
Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender. They must also be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns in the workplace.

These are just a few of the policies outlined in the company handbook, dated January 2021, a copy of which was shared with The Daily Signal. Fox also offers to help employees come up with a "Workplace Transition Plan" to ease their gender transition at work.

The revelations comes amid conservative consternation at Fox Digital's use of activist language like "gender affirming care" in stories on its website, as well as the site's consistent use of female pronouns for biological males like TikTok celebrity Dylan Mulvaney and swimmer Lia Thomas (formerly known as Will Thomas).
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For real? North Carolina Gov. declares 'State of Emergency' because Republican-led school choice is about to pass

Tim Meads
The Daily Wire
Tue, 23 May 2023 17:43 UTC
Roy Cooper
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Democratic Governor Roy Cooper (NC) has declared a "State of Emergency" because the GOP-led legislature is about to pass school choice amongst other conservative measures that fight back against radical gender ideology and woke educational policies.

What exactly does a "state of emergency" over public education entail? It's unclear, but Cooper thought it enough of a crisis to give a press conference and run this banner across governor.nc.gov:


Comment: Declaring a state of emergency over something trivial is a hallmark of Democratic leadership these days. Though one struggles to find any instance where the drama is as over-inflated as this. Cooper is a third-rate clown and first-rate moron.

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Every voter in Nassau County, NY listed as 'Democrat' after printing 'error'

Sara Higdon
The Post Millennial
Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownNassau County ID Card • Bruce Blakeman
A printing error led to all Nassau County, New York voters being listed as Democrats on their ID cards. With the primary a month away for county court judge, the cards were mailed to ensure voters knew their polling location.

According to NBC 4, many residents received their cards on Tuesday and immediately began calling their county officials.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said:
"We're already starting to get phone calls from people, saying 'I'm a registered Republican, I'm a registered Conservative - how come I'm being identified as a Democrat? Who changed my registration?' And they're quite upset about it. There's a lot of confusion, there's a lot of people emotionally upset about this."
Blakeman blamed Phoenix Graphics out of Rochester, the company hired to print the new cards.
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US media disconnected from public - poll


RT
Tue, 23 May 2023 17:12 UTC
Joe Biden
© Getty Images / Leon NealPresident Joe Biden speaks at an event last month in Ballina, Ireland.
Most Americans believe the 'Russiagate' investigation of Donald Trump was based on lies and that President Joe Biden's family engaged in influence-peddling crimes, a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll has shown, suggesting that legacy media outlets have failed to sway public opinion.

The poll, released on Friday, found that 56% of US voters believe the claim that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election was a "false story." The same percentage believe the Steele dossier, which was the basis for an FBI investigation of Trump's campaign, was false.

Nearly seven in ten respondents said they weren't surprised that the Durham Report, released earlier this month, found that the FBI violated its own standards in starting the Trump-Russia investigation and became a funnel for "disinformation" from Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign. Likewise, 70% of respondents were concerned about interference by the FBI and intelligence agencies in US presidential elections, and 71% believe the federal government needs "wide-ranging reform" to prevent such meddling.
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If you live in a major US city, it's probably time to move

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00 UTC
If You Live in a Major US City, It’s Probably Time to Move
Although this may seem to be an article focusing on Chicago, please realize Chicago is only being used as an example of the moral decay and corruption in virtually every major city in the United States. It serves as a stark warning to relocate if you are in one of these areas.

As noted by ReallyGraceful in the video above, Chicago, Illinois, ought to be "a haven of the United States." The third largest city in the U.S., it's filled with world-class architecture and technological advancements. It's a center for manufacturing and transportation industries and has become a tech sector mecca.1

But rather than being the apple of America's eye, Chicago has become known as "a center for murder, crime and corruption." A person is shot every three hours and 41 minutes in "The Windy City." This despite having some of the toughest gun control laws in the country.

Someone is murdered every 15 hours and 54 minutes in Chicago. According to statistics cited in the video, you're more likely to be murdered in Chicago than die as a civilian in the Ukraine-Russia war. The violence in Chicago is primarily Black on Black, and most victims are Black men under the age of 25. How did this happen? How did Chicago become a center for crime rather than advancement?

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Harvard poll: Americans doubt 'Russiagate', suspect Biden family influence peddling


MENAFN
Tue, 23 May 2023 17:15 UTC
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© Getty Images / Leon Neal
According to a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, a majority of Americans hold the belief that the investigation into Donald Trump's alleged collusion with Russia, commonly known as "Russiagate," was built upon falsehoods. The survey also indicates that many Americans perceive President Joe Biden's family to have engaged in influence-peddling crimes. These findings suggest that mainstream media outlets have failed to significantly sway public opinion on these matters.

Released on Friday, the poll reveals that 56 percent of United States voters consider the claim of Trump colluding with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election to be a "false story." Similarly, the same percentage of respondents view the Steele dossier, which served as the foundation for the FBI's investigation into Trump's campaign, as false.

In another noteworthy finding, nearly seven out of ten participants expressed little surprise at the conclusions presented in the Durham Report, which was released earlier in the month. The report highlighted the FBI's violation of its own standards in initiating the Trump-Russia investigation and its role in disseminating "disinformation" from Hillary Clinton's campaign, the Democratic candidate at the time. Furthermore, 70 percent of respondents expressed concerns about interference by the FBI and intelligence agencies in United States presidential elections. Additionally, a majority (71 percent) of participants believe that comprehensive reforms are necessary within the federal government to prevent such meddling from occurring in the future.
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Deaths of despair now significant among the young

Yves Smith
naked capitalism
Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00 UTC
Deaths of Despair
We first wrote about what came to be called about deaths of despair when the landmark work by Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel prize winner in economics, and his wife Anne Case, on the dramatic rise in the death rate of middle-aged, less educated whites. Even though this study and a follow-on did garner a great deal of major media attention, there was almost nothing in the way of action to try to alleviate this crisis.

The cancer of inaction seems to be working its way through its host, as in the US. The Wall Street Journal reports tonight Young Americans Are Dying at Alarming Rates, Reversing Years of Progress. You'll see many of the causes parallel those of lamented but not acted upon deaths of despair. And as you'll also see. both tragedies are acute in the US, not so much in other advanced economies.

For a refresher, from our first post in 2015 on Case-Deaton findings:

The authors found that from 1999 to 2013, the death rate among non-Hispanic whites aged 45 to 54 with a high school education or less rose, while it fell in other age and ethnic groups. This is an HIV-level silent epidemic: AIDS killed an estimated 650,000 from the mid-1980s to present, while an estimated close to half-million died in half that time period who would have lived had their mortality rates fallen in line with the rest of the population. It is hard to overstate the significance of these findings. From the New York Times:
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