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Monty Python pressured to drop gender transition skit


RT
Sat, 20 May 2023 19:57 UTC
John Cleese
© Getty Images / Artur Widak
Beloved British comedy troupe Monty Python was pressured to do away with a skit from their classic film 'Life of Brian' that jokes about a man wanting to become a woman and have babies, co-founder John Cleese told an audience at his one-man show last week.

"We love the script, but you can't do that stuff about Loretta nowadays," performers conducting a read-through of the Biblical parody last year supposedly told Cleese, claiming the skit - in which the character Stan insists on being called 'Loretta' and declares "it's every man's right to have babies if he wants them" - would offend modern audiences.

"So here you have something there's never been a complaint about in 40 years, that I've heard of, and now all of a sudden we can't do it because it'll offend people," Cleese lamented. "What is one supposed to make of that?"

In the skit, Stan's comrades in the People's Front of Judea are split on whether to support 'Loretta's' new identity, and the self-declared woman accuses his detractor of "oppressing" him.

"I'm not oppressing you, Stan, you haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?" his friend asks.

Comment: Go woke, go broke... not just financially but spiritually too. See also:

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Bomb

60,000 tons of explosive chemical ammonium nitrate lost in shipping: report

Kathianne Boniello
New York Post
Sun, 21 May 2023 01:51 UTC
ammonium nitrate plant
© KQEDAbout 60,000 tons of ammonium nitrate were lost while being shipped.
About 60,000 tons of an explosive chemical disappeared from a rail car last month as it was being shipped through the western US, according to reports.

Explosives company Dyno Nobel reported the vanishing ammonium nitrate — the main ingredient in Timothy McVeigh's 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City — to the federal National Response Center on May 10, KQED reported.

The chemical, which can also be used as a fertilizer, was put on a rail car that departed Cheyenne, Wyo., on April 12, headed for California, and the rail car was found empty two weeks later during a stop in the Mojave Desert, the outlet said.

Four separate investigations have since been launched.

Comment: One doesn't simply 'lose' 60,000 tons of fertilizer, especially the explosive kind.

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Bullseye

Exxon dismisses 'Net Zero 2050' warning it would collapse 'global standard of living'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 21 May 2023 01:00 UTC
Exxon
© Andrew Kelly/Reuters
In a world of suffocating snowflakery, ESG hypocrisy and, well... Tranheuser Busch, a corporation telling the truth without fear of reprisals from the Open Society-funded virtue signaling cabal is rarer than an mRNA-injected, genetically engineered hen's teeth. And yet that's what the company hated by every progressive, Exxon Mobil, did this week when it became the first corporation to denounce the insidious and laughable claims that "net zero" is even a remote possibility by 2050.

The US supermajor pushed back against investors pressing the company to report on the risks to its business from restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions and potential environmental disasters when in a reply to proxy advisor Glass Lewis, Exxon said the prospect of the world achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 is remote and should not be further evaluated in its financial statements.
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Spanish F-18 fighter jet crashes at Zaragoza Air Base


Sputnik
Sat, 20 May 2023 22:45 UTC
F-18 Fighter Jet
© CC BY-SA 2.0 / Jordi Payà
An F-18 fighter jet crashed on Saturday at the Zaragoza Air Base in northeastern Spain, the Spanish Air and Space Force said, adding the pilot managed to eject before it hit the ground.

"This morning, there was an accident at the Zaragoza Air Base involving an F-18 ... The pilot successfully ejected and the aircraft landed within the perimeter of the base," the military said on social media.

"The pilot of the crashed F-18 is already in the hospital and his life is not in danger," it added. A regional daily, Heraldo de Aragon, reported that the pilot was drilling maneuvers ahead of an air show when the jet span out of control.

A video published by the daily shows the plane nosedive and crash into the tarmac. The pilot was able to eject before the aircraft turned into a giant fireball. The paper said he received multiple injuries to his legs, hips and arms.

Comment: Footage of the crash:

The above is rather notable, because back in 2017 it was reported: Despite bloated US military budgets, two thirds of Navy F18 fighter jets can't fly

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Soaring cost of food will be key factor in Greece's elections


CGTN
Sat, 20 May 2023 22:49 UTC
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Greek inflation fell last month, due to a rapid fall in energy prices.

But the cost of food continues to rise, putting it high on the list of voter concerns in Sunday's national elections.

Fifty-two-year-old Piraeus resident Vassilis Siabragas used to buy groceries for the whole week. With just under 50 euros he fed his entire family.

Now he only gets what he needs for one day.
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Just when you thought he couldn't possibly get any creepier, here's Joe Biden taking and escorting a pair of children into the Oval Office

Cardinal Pritchard
Not the Bee
Sat, 20 May 2023 22:36 UTC
Chief Creep
© Twitter
You guys, this might be the creepiest video of our creepy president I've seen so far.

Watch Joe peek around a corner and lure two children into his grasp for a totally normal intimate visit to the Oval Office:
  • "What did you like in Poland, Mr. President?"
  • "Send me your kids right now."
Umm...
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Attention

FBI abused surveillance tool against George Floyd protesters, Jan. 6 suspects, filing shows

Ben Whedon
Just the News
Fri, 19 May 2023 05:11 UTC
CWray
© Camille FineFBI Director Christopher Wray
The FBI violated civil liberties against George Floyd protesters and Jan. 6 participants through the improper use of a surveillance tool, according to a filing from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) unsealed Friday, that undercuts claims by FBI Director Christopher Wray that the bureau had reformed its process for using it.

The revelation is certain to place pressure on Congress, which must decide this year whether to renew the law permitting the bureau's use of the Section 702 database. The April 2022 opinion from the FISC, which the Washington Post obtained, indicated that the bureau had improperly made use of the database more than 278,000 times, including against the aforementioned groups, crime victims, and political donors.
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Greatest reset: Europe could achieve net zero by demolishing its historic buildings and starting again, says Italian central bank

Oliver JJ Lane
Breitbart
Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00 UTC
Bank bldg
© Getty ImagesBanca D'Italia
A top central banker has warned of the damage the rush to 'Net-Zero' risks doing to Europe's economy, and illustrates the point by noting erasing Europe's built heritage would be necessary to meet extreme green demands.

Among comments by Paolo Angelini, deputy governor at the Bank of Italy about European Net Zero targets which, in his opinion, risk doing more harm than good, the central banker articulated what level of change would actually be needed from Europeans to meet those demands.

While saying pushing Europe to net zero risks destabilising the continent's economy and undermining Europe's ability to lead on green issues globally, the top economist made his point by revealing he'd asked his team at the Bank of Italy what would be necessary just to make the single institution that he leads compliant.
Shareholders
© Alessandro di Meo/AFP/Getty ImagesShareholders' Room • Bank of Italy • May 29, 2020
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Embattled Soros-backed U.S. attorney resigns following DOJ ethics investigation

Joseph Simonson
The Washington Free Beacon
Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00 UTC
Rollins
© Twitter screenshotThen Suffolk County, Mass., DA Rachael Rollins in 2021
Rachael Rollins will leave her post as the Massachusetts U.S. attorney on Friday...

An embattled George Soros-backed U.S. attorney announced that she would resign this week, hours before the release of a Department of Justice investigation that concluded she broke campaign finance laws and lied under oath.

Rachael Rollins will leave her post as Massachusetts U.S. attorney on Friday, her attorney said late Tuesday. The Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General on Wednesday concluded a months-long investigation into whether Rollins violated the Hatch Act after she attended a Democratic National Committee fundraiser featuring first lady Jill Biden in the summer of 2021.

The DOJ said in its report:
"We found Rollins's conduct described throughout this report violated federal regulations, numerous DOJ policies, her Ethics Agreement, and applicable law, and fell far short of the standards of professionalism and judgment that the Department should expect of any employee, much less a U.S. Attorney."
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Attention

FBI whistleblowers testify that Biden admin retaliated against them for expressing concern over weaponization of government against Jan 6 defendants

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Thu, 18 May 2023 00:01 UTC
fbi whistleblowers
Three of the FBI whistleblowers attend a congressional hearing.
On Thursday, the House Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government heard from FBI whistleblowers who allege that the agency retaliated against them over their whistleblower disclosures, made to their direct superiors.

Garret O'Boyle, a US Army veteran and former FBI special agent, testified to Congress that he was "wrongfully suspended from the FBI."

O'Boyle said of his four years as a special agent with the FBI, "I received the highest annual review an employee can receive. I volunteered for, tried out for, and was selected for an FBI SWAT team; I also volunteered for, tried out for, and was selected for a new unit the FBI created and I received an award for my work on an anti-abortion extremism case."

Comment: See also:

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