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Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services: Sex-change for minors is child abuse

Paul Bois
Breitbart
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:27 UTC
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Esteban Felix/AP Photo
Sex reassignment surgery for minors is child abuse, according to a ruling by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). The ruling comes one week after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) asked the agency to investigate the issue.

In a letter to Gov. Abbott's office, DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters declared that "genital mutilation of a child for purposes of gender transitioning through reassignment surgery constitutes child abuse." Masters wrote:
Genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse. This surgical procedure physically alters a child's genitalia for non-medical purposes potentially inflicting irreversible harm to children's bodies. Generally, children in the care and custody of a parent lack the legal capacity to consent to surgical treatments, making them more vulnerable.
Masters further added that sex reassignment surgery for minors may only be appropriate in certain cases, such as a:
...child whose body parts have been affected by illness or trauma; who is born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development, such as the presence of both ovarian and testicular tissue; or who does not have the normal sex chromosome structure for male or female as determined through genetic testing.

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Why won't the US medical establishment "believe women"? Covid-19 vaccines do not warn about menstrual disruption

Marcie Smith Parenti
The Grayzone
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:49 UTC
Amid rising reports of vaccine-related menstrual disruptions, the CDC and FDA are dismissing women's concerns and denying them information while corporate media pathologizes them in sexist fashion.

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This August 11, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) overhauled its COVID-19 vaccine guidance for pregnant women, now "urging" them to accept their shots.

Just 23% of pregnant women in the US have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Only something like 11.1% have been fully vaccinated.

The CDC is seeking to drive these numbers up, but it is not doing the one thing that would, perhaps more than anything else, assuage the "hesitations" of these so-called "anti-vaxxers": investigate and explain widespread reports of menstrual disruption post-Covid 19 vaccine - and, if necessary, add a warning about it.

Why?

I have five female friends who, after receiving Covid-19 vaccines, experienced disruption to their menstrual cycles. Their symptoms have included hemorrhagic bleeding lasting more than a month; heavy intermittent bleeding for four months; passing golf-ball size clots of blood; and extreme cramping, serious enough to land one friend in the ER.
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'It was just disbelief': Parent files complaint against Atlanta elementary school after learning the principal segregated students based on race

Niara Savage
Atlanta Black Star
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Principal Briscoe
© Screenshot/WSBT TV
Principal Sharyn Briscoe accused of student segregation at Mary Lin Elementary school
An Atlanta mom filed a federal complaint against her daughter's Atlanta elementary school after she learned that the school was separating students on the basis of race.

In the discrimination complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, parent Kila Posey claims the principal at Mary Lin Elementary School, a K-5 school in the Atlanta Public Schools system, put a segregation policy in place because she thought it was best for all students.

"We've lost sleep like trying to figure out why would a person do this," Posey told local TV news station WSB. Posey and her attorney Sharese Shields believe the policy is a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Posey found out last year that the elementary school would be putting Black students in two different classrooms with two different teachers and white students into six classrooms with six different teachers.
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NJ inmate freed early due to COVID charged with murdering teen 2 days later

Lee Brown
New York Post
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:12 UTC
Jerry Crawford
© Cumberland County Jail
Jerry Crawford was serving time for burglary and has since been charged with the murder of Davion Scarbrough.
A New Jersey inmate who was freed early because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged with murdering a teenager just two days after his release.

Jerry Crawford, 25, was serving time for burglary when he was let out on "public health emergency credits" to parole supervision on Nov. 4, prison officials confirmed to NJ.com Wednesday.

He has since been charged with the murder of Davion Scarbrough, 18, who was gunned down in Bridgeton on Nov. 6 — just two days after Crawford got out of South Woods State Prison, the outlet said.

Comment: Senator Michael Testa summed up the insanity of the situation quite well:
"While Governor Murphy was jamming nursing homes with sick COVID patients, he was emptying jails to protect prisoners," Testa added. "It's a level of insanity and hypocrisy that's almost beyond belief. Governor Murphy owes New Jersey an apology for the 8,000 nursing home deaths he caused and the criminals he freed who are driving his death toll even higher."
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Antifa militants clash with 'Choose Freedom' protesters in front of LA City Hall, stab one - no arrest

Ian Miles Cheong
The Post Millennial
Sun, 15 Aug 2021 16:03 UTC
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© Twitter
Antifa thug attacked an anti-vaccine protester in front of Los Angeles City Hall on August 14, 2021
In what first began as a clash of words between anti-mask mandate protesters and Antifa in front of the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters escalated into blows as left-wing militants struck out at the protesters. One man was stabbed by an Antifa militant, prompting dozens of protesters to retaliate.

Organizers of the "Choose Freedom March" rallied on Saturday to protest against the city's "medical tyranny, mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports," where they were soon met by an opposing group of Antifa, who were dressed in "black bloc" gear, who called for "no safe spaces for fascists."

At least 500 Los Angeles residents gathered in front of the south lawn of the Los Angeles City Hall to peacefully protest the city's issuance of mask mandates and mandatory vaccinations, where they were met by black-clad counter-protesters at around 2pm, LAPD spokesman Lt. Raul Jovel said.

Comment: Journalist Andy Ngo also posted footage of the assault as recorded by JLeeQuinn:



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California Gov. Newsom kicks off anti-recall counter-offensive with simple message: 'Just vote no'

Joe Garofoli
San Francisco Chronicle
Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:49 UTC
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© Jungho Kim/Special to The Chronicle
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters during a press conference for his “Vote No” camapaign at Manny’s in San Francisco.
There was a palpable sense of urgency — and concern — among the top San Francisco Democrats standing behind Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday as he kicked off a weekend-long statewide barnstorming trip to urge Californians to vote no against the recall.

With polls showing that likely voters are virtually split on whether to recall Newsom, Assemblyman David Chiu invoked the memory of election night 2016, when heavy Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton lost to Republican Donald Trump.

"We thought we had it in the bag. The polls showed us that we are way ahead. Well, it turned out we were wrong," Chiu said at Newsom's campaign stop at Manny's, a Mission District restaurant and political gathering place.

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'Weaponizing its terms of service': Facebook FORCED shutdown of project monitoring Instagram's algorithm, German researcher says


RT
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:38 UTC
instagram
© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
German social-media researcher AlgorithmWatch said it was forced to abandon a project monitoring Instagram's newsfeed algorithm after the Big Tech platform's parent, Facebook, threatened to take punitive action.

"Ultimately, an organization the size of AlgorithmWatch cannot risk going to court against a company valued at $1 trillion," the German not-for-profit group said on Friday. The project was halted last month, and AlgorithmWatch said it chose to speak out now - highlighting the need for lawmakers to protect future research of online platforms - after Facebook shut down the accounts of researchers at New York University's Ad Observatory.

The group's project involved recruiting 1,500 volunteers to install a browser extension that scraped data from their Instagram newsfeeds. In the project's first 14 months, AlgorithmWatch made such findings as: Instagram encouraged content creators to post certain types of pictures, such as shirtless men or women wearing bikinis or underwear; and politicians were more likely to reach a larger audience if they refrained from using text in their posts.

But when the researcher asked Facebook for comment on its findings, the tech giant said the project was "flawed in a number of ways," and it later said it had found shortcomings in the study's methodology. Facebook didn't spell out what those flaws and shortcomings were, AlgorithmWatch said, and it came back in May 2021 to claim that the group had violated its terms of service.

Comment: See also: An unseen guiding hand: The 'algorithm' and the mysterious rules of social media

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How the Child Victims Act revealed New York's dark history of child sexual abuse

Priscilla DeGregory and Gabrielle Fonrouge
New York Post
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:00 UTC
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© Stephen Yang
Steven Cowen, 53, alleged that he was sexually abused when he was an altar boy at Saint Rita's in Staten island beginning in 1977.
Inside the red brick walls of the Church of Saint Rita, 9-year-old Steven Cowen was Father Stephen Gregory's "favorite altar boy."

The then-32-year-old Catholic priest at the Staten Island church used to take Cowen out of his classes and ply him with wine until the child was "visibly intoxicated," court records say.

Then, in the quiet solitude of the church's rectory and sacristy, Cowen's young body was repeatedly defiled when he was allegedly forced to wash Gregory's feet and genitals with holy water and perform oral sex on him.

The abuse Cowen, now 53, says he endured over the course of two years starting in 1977, which Gregory emphatically denies, later led to a crippling sex addiction and has continued to haunt him to this day. But thanks to the Child Victims' Act, which allowed victims with old claims that have passed the statute of limitations to take legal action, he's finally getting the closure he's long hoped for.

Comment: Although a step in the right direction, we're still a long way from any real exposure of what is going. See also:

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Quenelle - Golden

France: Hundreds of thousands march against injection passport for fifth week in a row


France 24
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 17:50 UTC
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© Sameer Al-Doumy, AFP
People take part in a march organised by the French nationalist party "Les Patriotes" (The Patriots) as part of a national day of protest against the compulsory Covid-19 vaccination for certain workers, and the mandatory use of the health pass called for by the French government to access most public spaces, in Paris on August 14, 2021
Protesters have marched in cities across France for a fifth consecutive weekend against rules compelling them to show a COVID-19 health pass for dailyactivities, but in lesser numbers than a week ago.


Comment: See the media below, the turn out was likely much bigger than previous protests.


They rallied through the streets of Paris, Marseille, Nice, Montpellier and other towns waving placards reading "Pass=Apartheid" and chanting "Freedom, freedom".

Since last Monday, citizens have been required to show the pass in public places, proving that they have been vaccinated or have recently been tested negative for the coronavirus.

Comment: Just some of today's protests in France:

Paris:


Marseille:


Bordeaux:


Chambery:

Valence:


And protests have erupted in other countries threatening the same totalitarian restrictions:

Montreal, Canada:


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Brazilian singer turned congresswoman held over preacher husband's murder


The Guardian
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:02 UTC
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© Michel Jesus/Brazilian Chamber of Deputies/AFP/Getty ImagesTom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, a former gospel star, was elected to Brazil's Congress in 2018.
The Brazilian gospel star turned congresswoman accused of masterminding the murder of her preacher husband has been arrested after she was expelled from congress earlier this week.

Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, an evangelical celebrity famed for raising more than 50 children she claimed to have rescued from lives of poverty and crime, was detained on Friday night at her home near Rio de Janeiro.

As she was escorted to a police car outside the house - the same address where her husband was shot dead in June 2019 - the singer shouted: "Faith in God!"

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