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Federal judge hands DeSantis admin big win over Florida's 'Stop WOKE Act'

Emma Colton
Fox News
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 20:25 UTC
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© Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing the "Stop WOKE" act during a press conference on April 22, 2022.
DeSantis: "Florida is where 'woke' goes to die"

A federal judge ruled that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration did not violate a court order regarding the state's "Stop WOKE Act," which prohibits colleges from promoting critical race theory lessons and targets other "woke" concepts prevalent on higher education campuses.

"Although this court would not hesitate to compel compliance with its preliminary injunction, this court finds there has been no violation of the injunction at this time," U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker wrote on Thursday, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Plaintiffs had challenged the law, known as the "Stop Wrongs To Our Kids and Employees Act" or "Stop WOKE Act," arguing that the DeSantis administration had failed to comply with a preliminary injunction that prevents the enforcement of some parts of the law.

Comment: Common sense is slowly but surely spreading in Florida. May the groundswell continue.

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Epstein Island: Newly unsealed evidence of abuse

Techno Fog
The Reactionary
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:42 UTC
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Unsealed photographs - Ghislaine Maxwell at Epstein Island
Unsealed testimony implicates Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

We have newly unsealed documents - including the depositions of Ghislaine Maxwell and one of her victims - revealing new details on the extent of the abuse and victimization that took place by Jeffrey Epstein. Those filings come from Giuffre v. Maxwell, a civil case filed against Maxwell in 2015 in the New York Southern District.

Some of the broader allegations have already been made public. Sarah Ransome, who accused Epstein and Maxwell of abuse that took place during her early 20s, settled a civil lawsuit against them in 2018. Ransome has publicly described some of the abuse. And there have been reports on what transpired at Little St. James, often referred to as Epstein Island.
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Best of the Web: Tonic Masculinity

John Carter
Telegrams From Barsoom
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 16:12 UTC
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For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. — Kipling, Prophet Laureate of Tonic Masculinity
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Being no one's idea of angelic, I will now hold forth on the masculinity question.

Say what you will about the pronounists, they've nailed the zeitgeist in one important respect, that being the widespread confusion about what men and women even are. Somehow, we've found ourselves in a place where a plurality of us, maybe a majority, have no idea what it is to be a man or a woman, an issue that was considered not so much settled as simply obvious to essentially every previous generation. The apparently clear definition of 'an adult human male or female', beloved of big brains in the post-liberal set, doesn't seem at all sufficient. We've got plenty of physically mature humans wandering about who have no real idea of what it is to be a man or a woman. Evidence: just look at them.

It isn't just the gender confused who are gender confused. They're merely the most acute symptom of this societal breakdown, their dangerhair a screaming siren that something has gone seriously wrong not only in their own broken psyches, but in the social disorder that broke them.
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Plane crashes in Nepal, 68 bodies recovered so far


Outlook
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:26 UTC
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There were five Indians onboard the Nepali passenger plane that crashed in Nepal's Pokhara. Their fates are not yet known.

There were a total of 72 passengers in the Nepali plane, including 68 passengers and four crew members. The plane was operated by Yeti Airlines.

Of the 72 persons onboard, a total of 68 bodies have so far been recovered from the site of crash, according to PTI.

The Indians in the plane have been identified as Abhisekh Kushwaha, Bishal Sharma, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, Sonu Jaiswal, and Sanjaya Jaiswal, according to a Yeti Airlines official.

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Emergency blackouts enforced across Ukraine following wave of Russian strikes against power grid


Al Jazeera
Sat, 14 Jan 2023 12:00 UTC
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© AP Photo/Andrew KravchenkoFILE PHOTO: Windows of an apartment building are illuminated during a blackout in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022.
Russia has carried out a wave of missile attacks across Ukrainian cities, killing at least five people and causing new disruptions in power supplies, particularly in Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, officials said.


Comment: The death of 5 people - we don't know if these are civilians or military - is a rather small number considering this wave of strikes, and, yet again, confirms Russia's diligence in avoiding civilian casualties where possible.


"Unfortunately, there were hits on energy infrastructure," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Saturday. "In this connection, the most difficult situation is in Kharkiv region and Kyiv region."

Emergency blackouts were applied in "most regions" of Ukraine on Saturday due to the raids, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said. "Today the enemy attacked the country's energy generation facilities and power grid again. There are attacks in Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions," Galushchenko said on Facebook.

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Shocking - 50,000 excess deaths in Britain

Peter Emanuelsen
petersweden.substack.com
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00 UTC
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I don't know where to start. People like me and others have warned that this was going to happen, and sadly we were correct in our predictions.

This is a horrible, horrible story. Yet it is not anywhere near as big of a story in the mainstream media as it should be.

In 2022, Britain had the HIGHEST number of excess deaths since 1951 if you exclude the covid pandemic years of 2020 and 2021.

There was a whopping 50,000 excess deaths in the country for the whole year.

Remember when they told you to wear a mask and lock yourself inside for two years to save grandma? Remember how they had covid death trackers constantly on the TV to scare people into compliance?

But now when people are dying in massive numbers, they are more or less completely ignoring it.
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We are suffering a tripledemic. Not of disease, but of fear.

Vinay Prasad
The Free Press
Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:18 UTC
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© Liao Pan via Getty ImagesCan't be too safe . . . .
Getting sick sometimes is the price of returning to normal. Dr. Vinay Prasad thinks it's more than worth it.

For the last few weeks, the media has been filled with stories about what The New York Times has described as our latest "viral onslaught." It's been dubbed a "tripledemic" — a combination of Covid-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which is being blamed for high rates of illness and an excess of hospitalizations, especially among children.

The message is clear: fear winter respiratory viruses, and take every possible precaution you can. It's time to slap on those N95s once more, avoid crowds, and socialize outdoors if possible.

But the best available evidence contradicts the narrative from the media and many public health officials. The precautions being recommended are essentially unproven — akin to burning an incense stick, or wearing garlic to ward off vampires.
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FTSE 100 nears record high, US inflation dips slightly

Graeme Wearden
The Guardian
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:50 UTC
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© Vega Alonso/EPAGraeme WeardenEuropean markets closed higher on Friday amid hopes over inflation.
The UK's FTSE 100 share index approached a record high on Friday, as European markets were lifted by hopes that the inflation shock from energy prices is easing.

The blue-chip stock index, which includes the 100 largest companies listed in London, hit its highest level in more than four years. It touched 7,864.95 points, less than 1% away from the record intraday high of 7,903 points set in May 2018, before closing at 7844.07.

Global shares have been lifted this year by optimism that central banks will slow interest rate increases, due to signs that inflation is cooling.

China's relaxation of its Covid-19 restrictions could also help global growth this year.


Comment: It's rather telling that European economies are pinning hopes for recovery on China; the same China that the West wants to contain, as evidenced by their recent military pacts, belligerence, and propaganda.


That has pushed up commodity prices, and lifted shares in mining companies listed on the London stock market.

Comment: As if anyone needed any more evidence as to how detached from reality the markets are:

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Fire

Gas pipeline explosion rocks northern Lithuania, resident heard 'low flying planes', route also supplies nearby Latvia


LRT.it
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:00 UTC
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© Gintautas GegužinskasA gas pipeline exploded near Pasvalys in northern Lithuania
Open flames up to 50 metres high were seen on the site of a burst gas pipeline in northern Lithuania. A village of around 250 people is being evacuated.

The explosion was reported at around 17:00 on Friday evening in the village of Pasvalio Vienkiemiai, in the District of Pasvalys.

The explosion occurred in the Amber Grid gas main pipeline. No casualties have been reported.

"There were unexpected sounds, it seemed as if planes were flying somewhere low - a high-pressure gas pipeline exploded on the side of Valakėliai, on the Pasvalys-Šiauliai road, a couple of kilometres from Pasvalys. The flames are shooting up to a high altitude," Pasvalys District Mayor Gintautas Gegužinskas described the incident to LRT RADIO.


Comment: Notably, a similar comment was made by a resident in Russia in December when an oil refinery there also exploded: 'Suddenly there was an explosion, a glow. I thought that a plane fell on us...'


Comment: Considering the number of explosions and unexplained fires across the planet of late, often occurring at pipelines, military bases, as well as food processing facilities and factories, it's not unreasonable to conclude that at least some (not all) of them are likely sabotage; others will be due to human error, and still others may be due to natural phenomena: See also:

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Most doctors in EU country's capital consider quitting - poll


RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:54 UTC
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© Getty Images / Kobus Louw
More than two-thirds of doctors in the Austrian capital, Vienna, "regularly" consider resigning, a survey conducted by the Vienna Medical Association revealed on Tuesday. Respondents cited the seemingly insurmountable problems of overwork and understaffing.

Three in four doctors surveyed complained their workload was too heavy, while a quarter claimed their employer did not provide required breaks. Pessimism reigns supreme, with 91% doubting the punishing workload will improve in the future and over half (55%) expecting an even greater workload to come.

Just under half (48%) want to change from public to private practice, complaining about "having to greet patients as if they were on an assembly line," according to VMA Vice President Stefan Ferenci.

"If the Vienna city government does not act now, the hospitals will soon be empty," he said, noting that the mood among doctors has declined even further over the past several months.
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