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Stormtrooper

Israel erects barbed wire around main gate to Al-Aqsa Mosque for first time since 1967 and as Ramadan begins

Lions' Gate (Bab al-Asbat), Jerusalem
Lions' Gate (Bab al-Asbat), Jerusalem
Israel has erected barbed wire on a fence around the Lions' Gate area adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, Palestinian authorities said Monday.

"This is a dangerous precedent that has never occurred since 1967," the Jerusalem governor's office said in a statement.

The Lions' Gate, also known as Bab al-Asbat, is located within Jerusalem's Old City and is one of the main gates leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Comment: Evidently Israel is violating the rights of worshippers in the hope of inciting a reaction from them, as well as Muslims around the world, the Arab league, and Islamic nations.

Notably, some analysts, such as former British diplomat Alastair Crooke, have pointed to Israel's seemingly eschatalogically driven activities around (and underneath) Al-Aqsa as part of the reason for the events of October 7:


Coffee

Chocolate prices soar to record-breaking highs, cost doubled since November, plant disease and extreme weather blamed

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© AP Photo/Simon DawsonCadbury Creme eggs move down the production line at the Cadburys factory in Birmingham, England. ()
As Easter approaches, stores are stocking their shelves with chocolate enthusiasts' favourite sweet treat, the cocoa-based confection at the centre of this festive season.

However, 2024's Easter celebrations are set against a backdrop of record-breaking cocoa prices, with everyone from consumers to the entire chocolate industry feeling the pinch.

"As cocoa prices soar to record highs, the chocolate industry's response has been to subtly shrink product sizes or reformulate ingredients, a trend that hits consumers' pockets and palates," wrote Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab, in an email to CTVNews.ca.

Comment: Other than plant disease and extreme weather, which is affecting everything from olive oil to beef, and across much of the planet, the other factors contributing to the rising cost of most products are: lockdowns, the energy crisis, the West's multiple warfronts and the associated fallout, and the subsequent collapse of global shipping.

In conjunction with the above, there's the Western establishment's brazen attack on farming and the rising number of sabotage attacks on the food and energy supply chain.

It's notable that 'shrinkflation' and adulteration of the food supply (aka: skimpflation) is not a new concept, and is often documented in civilisations in the process of collapse:


Document

California study: Attempted-suicide rate among men who had gender surgery was "twice as high" as it was before operation

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© Getty Images / Vladimir Vladimirov
They call it "gender-affirming care" and tell us that not "affirming" gender identity is the equivalent of genocide.

"A living daughter is better than a dead son," the doctors say to parents as they calculate their bill.

All of us — even the liberals and get-rich-quick doctors who push it — we all know this is a lie; and now we have a study out of California that confirms it.

Comment: Anyone thinking that messing with one's hormones to such a profound extent, and permanently surgically altering one's body would make the person less suicidal is delusional. It's nice to have a study to confirm it, but common sense would dictate that people driven destroy their bodies are profoundly unwell in the first place. And the idea that a surgery will cure a psychological disorder is, again, delusional.

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Shamrock

Irish referendums: Voters reject changes to family and care definition

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© Returning Officer Barry RyanReturning Officer Barry Ryan reads the final result at Dublin castle
Voters in the Republic of Ireland have overwhelmingly voted against amending the Irish Constitution.

Proposals to alter wording in the constitution to include families which are not based on marriage were defeated with 67.7% voting 'no'.

A second proposed change on the wording around the role of women in the home was defeated by a higher margin with 73.9% of voters rejecting it.

It was the highest ever no vote percentage in an Irish referendum.

The first result announced on Saturday evening was in the family referendum.

The highest 'no' votes came from Donegal where 80% voted no on family and 84% voted no on care.

Only Dún Laoghaire, south-east of Dublin voted narrowly in favour of changing the definition of a family.

After a long wait, Waterford was the final constituency to declare its result for the care referendum.

In the care referendum, on the role of women in the home, 1,114,620 people voted no, compared with 393,053 yes voters, or 26.07% of the total.

Comment: Good on the Irish for rejecting this obvious debasement of family protections! Though the establishment may yet try to sneak the amendments in by some other means.


Bulb

Children to no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England confirms

Tavistock Centre
© PAThe Tavistock Centre runs the Gender Identity Development Service.
Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed.

Puberty blockers, which pause the physical changes of puberty such as breast development or facial hair, will now only be available to children as part of clinical research trials.

The government said it welcomed the "landmark decision", adding it would help ensure care is based on evidence and is in the "best interests of the child".

It follows a public consultation on the issue and an interim policy, and comes after NHS England commissioned an independent review of gender identity services for children under 18 in 2020.

The review followed a sharp rise in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) - a specialised service for young people who experience difficulties in the development of their gender identity - run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is closing at the end of March following repeated scrutiny.

In 2021/22, there were more than 5,000 referrals to GIDS, compared to just under 250 a decade earlier.

Passport

Voting fodder: Migrants who serve in US military can expedite path to citizenship, new bill proposes

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© Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ISingle migrant men, mostly from West Africa, congregate in Tompkins Square Park as volunteers give away food and clothing, January 27, 2024, in the East Village neighborhood of New York City, New York.
A new bill introduced by Reps. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y. and John James, R-Mich., would offer qualified and vetted migrants an expedited path to citizenship if they serve in the military.

The bill, called the Courage to Serve Act, would create a pilot program that would apply to people with no lawful permanent status, like asylum seekers and migrants waiting for work authorization. Qualified migrants could apply for lawful permanent residency within 180 days of enlisting in the military, the text said.

"There is no higher honor than serving your country in uniform," Ryan said.

Bullseye

Will the North Face be the next victim of 'Go Woke, Go broke'?

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The North Face has become the latest company to deploy woke nonsense on its unsuspecting customers by insisting they complete a 'racial inclusion course' if they want to benefit from a 20% discount. The pricey brand is loved by outdoors types: 69% of outdoor fashion users in the U.K. use The North Face and it is listed in the top brands for outdoor clothing.

Here is what you read when you enter the course:
At The North Face, we believe in the power of exploration... We also have a responsibility to support spaces where everyone feels like they belong. This one-hour digital course is designed to foster a deeper understanding of the unique challenges that people of colour face when accessing the outdoors. The course focuses on the perspective of race and racism in Europe, and we acknowledge that the experiences of people of colour around the globe differs.
The 'racial inclusion and allyship' course is created by the clothing company itself and named 'Allyship in The Outdoors'. It lasts one long, tedious hour, and comprises four modules.

Comment: Author is a critical thinker at age 15.


Footprints

Harvard tramples the truth

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© unknownGateway to Harvard's Soldier's Field in Allston, Massachusetts
When it came to debating Covid lockdowns, Veritas wasn't the university's guiding principle.

I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired. This is my story — a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to the truth as the world lost its way during the Covid pandemic.

On March 10, 2020, before any government prompting, Harvard declared that it would "suspend in-person classes and shift to online learning." Across the country, universities, schools, and state governments followed Harvard's lead.

Yet it was clear, from early 2020, that the virus would eventually spread across the globe, and that it would be futile to try to suppress it with lockdowns. It was also clear that lockdowns would inflict enormous collateral damage, not only on education but also on public health, including treatment for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health. We will be dealing with the harm done for decades. Our children, the elderly, the middle class, the working class, and the poor around the world — all will suffer.

Arrow Down

Arizona judge rules election vendor Runbeck not subject to public records law, ignores precedent set in Cyber Ninjas case

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© Unknown'Stepping over the lines' • Ballot boxes in Maricopa County, Arizona
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bradley Astrowsky issued a ruling Friday dismissing a complaint filed by We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA) that requested video surveillance from Runbeck Election Services. Although another judge ruled previously that the private company Cyber Ninjas was subject to public records requests due to conducting a partial audit for the Arizona Senate of the 2020 election, Astrowsky refused to apply the same reasoning to Runbeck, the vendor that processed all of Maricopa County's mail-in ballots prior to signature verification.

The judge, appointed by Gov. Jan Brewer in 2012, has served on the bench for a little more than a decade. A court insider familiar with Judge Astrowsky's decisions told The Arizona Sun Times he is well-known as a moderate in legal circles.

Abe Hamadeh War Room account posted their disappointment on X. Hamadeh is still appealing his election loss by 280 votes in the attorney general's race, citing evidence of votes that were not counted which emerged after his trial.

Sherlock

Family of five killed in apparent Hawaii murder-suicide, 'state's worst mass killing in over 2 decades'

Hawaii
© GettyThe incident took place in Manoa, a residential area of Honolulu.
Authorities in Hawaii are investigating the apparent murder-suicide of a family of five, including three children in a Honolulu home.

The father, who has not been identified, is believed to have stabbed to death his wife and three children - aged 10, 12 and 17 - before taking his own life, police said.

Witnesses reported an argument at the home on early Sunday morning.

The deaths mark Hawaii's worst mass killing in over two decades.

Comment: See also: At least 55 killed with 1,000 people still missing as fire devastates Lahaina town in Hawaii (UPDATE)