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City tries to cancel use of the term 'homeless'


RT
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:12 UTC
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© Mario Tama/Getty ImagesHomeless man selects a box for a sleeping mat • Skid Row of Los Angeles
America's most populous county, Los Angeles, hasn't yet cracked the code on solving homelessness, but local government officials have come up with a way to change conversations about the crisis: canceling the term "homeless."

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) argued in a Twitter post this week that such labels as "the homeless" and "homeless people" need to be replaced by more "inclusive" terms, including "people living outside" and "people who are unhoused." The idea is to get rid of the "negative stigma" around homelessness and "emphasize personhood over housing status," the authority said.
"Our unhoused neighbors are human, and the language we use should reflect that. "Let's abandon outdated, othering and dehumanizing terminology and instead adopt people-centered language."
Part of the idea is to use terminology that "acknowledges a person's individuality," according to the agency, but it's not clear how "people who are unhoused" carries more individuality than "homeless people."

Comment: Circumstances have gotten worse. No 'smiley faced labeling' will change that.

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Billion dollar 'ice bust' largest in Australian history as meth crisis worsens

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:30 UTC
meth cargo
Australian police found a record 1.8 metric tons (2 tons) of methamphetamine concealed inside marble slabs from the Middle East in the country's largest seizure of illicit drugs.

New South Wales Police said three men aged 24, 26, and 34 -- have been arrested and charged in connection with 748 kilograms (1,649 pounds) of meth that arrived at Port Botany (a suburb in south-eastern Sydney) in 24 sea containers earlier this month.

Another 1,060 kilograms (2,337 pounds) of meth encased in marble stone arrived in 19 containers at the same port last week. The drugs were all shipped from the United Arab Emirates.

Police said in total, 1,800 kilograms (4,000 pounds) of meth were seized with an estimated street value of approximately 1.6 billion AUD ($1.1 billion). They said this was the "largest detection of the drug" ever to be seized as part of ongoing investigations by the Drug and Firearms Squad.
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Unvaxxed doctors ask for their jobs back on billboard in West Kelowna

Steve MacNaull
Kelowna Now
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:00 UTC
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© CSSEM.orgThis billboard is at the corner of busy Highway 97 and Boucherie Road in West Kelowna.
Unvaccinated doctors in BC want their jobs back and have erected a billboard on busy Highway 97 on the Westside demanding just that.

"It only went up a few days ago and obviously a lot of people have seen it and it resonated with a lot of people because we've had a lot of new visits to the website," said Dr. York Hsiang, spokesperson for the Canadian Society for Science & Ethics in Medicine.

The society has 44 members, all doctors, who want the province to scrap its mandate that all health care workers in hospitals, long-term, acute and community care be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Most members are unvaccinated, but some are partially vaxxed or vaccinated and believe that people should have choice and that unvaxxed health care workers should be able to work again.

Word for word, the electronic billboard at the corner of Highway 97 and Boucherie Road reads: 50 terminated, unvaccinated BC doctors willing to serve you, the public, today. Allow us to do our part to help BC's collapsing health care. In the bottom right corner is the group's website address: CSSEM.org.
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Britain to see 80% spike in energy bills as crisis deepens

Sylvia Hui
ABC News
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:52 UTC
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© Vuk Valcic/Sopa Images/Lightrocket/Getty ImagesProtester in London
Jennifer Jones keeps feeding money into her energy meter, but it never seems to be enough. And when she can't pay, she feels the impact immediately. The power in her London home has gone off suddenly three times recently, once when her partner was cooking an egg.

Like millions of people, Jones, 54, is struggling to cope as energy and food prices skyrocket during Britain's worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. The former school supervisor has health problems and relies on government benefits to get by, but her welfare payments are nowhere near enough to cover her sharply rising bills.
"I've always struggled, but not as much. Everything is going up. I can't even pay my rent, my council tax, I can't afford to do anything. ... I keep asking myself, what am I supposed to do?"
And things are getting worse. U.K. residents will see an 80% increase in their annual household energy bills, the country's energy regulator announced Friday, following a record 54% spike in April. That will bring costs for the average customer from 1,971 pounds ($2,332) a year to 3,549 pounds.

The latest price cap — the maximum amount that gas suppliers can charge customers per unit of energy — will take effect Oct. 1, just as the cold months set in. And bills are expected to rise again in January to 4,000 pounds.

Comment: Today's dynamic is the warning stage. Winter is the real test as options diminish and desperation reaches a new level.

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Russian Orthodox church to 'streamline' exorcisms


RT
Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:43 UTC
Holy Synod Russian orthodox church
© Sputnik / Russian Orthodox ChurchAn extraordinary meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church is held in Moscow, on September 14, 2018.
The proposal makes the rite free and limits it to priests and bishops, to prevent abuse

The Russian Orthodox Church has finalized a draft of rules to regulate the practice of exorcism, in the making since 2021. If the draft becomes part of canon law, banishing demons will be a free service, and only priests and bishops will be allowed to practice it, to prevent abuses.

Exorcism can be performed "only in cases of demonic possession," and not for persons with mental disorders or diseases or those who "feign possession," says the draft document, published on Thursday on the website of the Moscow Patriarchate. The clergy are instructed to become familiar with basic psychiatry so they can make the appropriate judgment.

Comment: There seems to be a rise in need of this service around the world.

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Clients with 'Russian sounding' names sue French banks over sanctions


RT
Sat, 27 Aug 2022 16:56 UTC
French France bank Societe Generale
© Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters
Scores of customers have sued over "Kafkaesque" mistreatment

A total of 76 French residents with Russian or "Slavic-sounding" names have filed a complaint against a number of banks in France, alleging discrimination on account of national origin after getting caught up in the enforcement of anti-Russia sanctions.

Individuals with no ties to the Russian government found their bank accounts blocked and even long-time residents were caught in a net one attorney described as "Kafkaesque," the newspaper Le Figaro reported.
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Academic corruption: University of Washington knowingly kept quiet on flawed transgender study

Matt Lamb
The College Fix
Sat, 27 Aug 2022 16:42 UTC
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© Alexander Grey/Unsplash
Did not want to ruin 'positive coverage'

University of Washington media officials knowingly kept quiet on a flawed study that claimed that injecting children with off-label puberty blockers benefited their health, according to emails obtained by a conservative radio host.

"A University of Washington study, in partnership with Seattle Children's Hospital, claimed gender-affirming care via puberty blockers leads to positive mental health outcomes for transgender teen patients," commentator Jason Rantz reported. "That characterization, however, was false, forcing substantial edits to the materials used to promote the study and prompting UW to cease promoting the research."

The Washington radio host obtained emails of UW staff colluding to downplay the edits and concerns about the study, titled "Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care."
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Poll: Mar-a-Lago search boosts Trump among GOP, but may damage him with most voters

Andrew Romano
Yahoo! News
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:15 UTC
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© Yahoo News; photos: AP, Jon Elswick/AP, Marco Bello/ReutersDonald Trump and the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.
Earlier this summer, Donald Trump's formerly rock-solid support among Republicans seemed to be wavering as a majority of party loyalists said they were open to backing a different GOP presidential nominee in 2024.

But the FBI's decision to search Trump's Mar-a-Lago property for highly classified documents on Aug. 8 — coupled with the former president's furious pushback — appears to have changed that.

According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, a majority of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents now prefer Trump (54%) over "someone else" (34%) for the 2024 nomination. Right before the Mar-a-Lago search, those numbers were 47% and 38%, respectively.

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: UK: Three quarters of pub owners fear their business faces extinction this winter

Ed Bedington
The Morning Advertiser
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:32 UTC
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© Getty Images/ImgorthandTea-lights? Interesting image the publication chose to go with
A survey by T​he Morning Advertiser​ (MA​) showed more than 70% of operators did not expect to make it through the winter without Government intervention.

Over 65% said they'd seen their utility costs increase by over 100%, meanwhile 30% reported a jump of 200% and 8% reported increases of more than 500%. Nearly 80% of operators said they could not afford the increase in energy costs.

Desperate operators are calling for a range of measures to help them survive the crisis, from reductions in VAT and business rates through to a cap on energy prices for business.

Comment: The elites are likely welcoming the idea of pub closures. They seek this. In the UK, pubs are one of the last bastions of socializing among the common people where ideas can be shared and solidarity strengthened. Lockdowns were the first strike, economic hardship is the next.

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Russia releases video of 'drunk' US embassy worker


RT
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:25 UTC
drunken us embassy employee moscow
© Telegram / MID_Russia
Foreign ministry in Moscow has jokingly suggested American mission staff should get a raise for their hard working conditions.

Russia's foreign ministry has, in jest, advised the US Department of State to remunerate more generously its staff working in Moscow, for their tough working conditions. The suggestion is accompanied by a video apparently depicting a drunken US embassy employee trying to make it to his work early in the morning.

On Thursday, the ministry published a post on its Telegram channel reading: "We call on the US Department of State to raise the pay for the employees of the American embassy in Moscow for unbearable working conditions." The message went on to suggest that "fighting us is a tiring activity."
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