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The report published by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) addresses how government policy can be used to protect children from harmful, abusive and violent content online. Its conclusion is based on a European study of 19 EU countries that found in most countries, most children who saw pornographic images were "neither upset nor happy." In fact, the report UNICEF relies on, says 39 percent of Spanish children were happy after seeing pornography.
Porn fighters disagree with the UNICEF data. "UNICEF's report ignores the vast body of research demonstrating the harms of pornography to children. By ignoring the real harms pornography can have, UNICEF is playing roulette with children's health and safety," said Lisa Thompson, vice president and director of the Research Institute at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
Thompson's organization, which provides expert research to inform policy decisions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of women and children, has found that pornography can be a central driver of this abuse.
"Mainstream pornography contains horrific sexual abuse, rape, incest, racism - all of which children should not consume," continued Thompson, and "UNICEF's milquetoast assessment of the impacts hardcore pornography on children does nothing to challenge the political narrative that pornography is benign, and as a result, puts children in harm's way."
The bill passed along party lines in the state Assembly and Senate, both controlled by Democrats.
"At a time when state legislatures across the country are attempting to roll back access to the polls, I am so proud that Nevada continues to push forward with proven strategies that make voting more accessible and secure," Sisolak said in a statement to the Epoch Times.
Sisolak also wrote on Twitter that the new law makes Nevada "the sixth state to adopt a permanent vote-by-mail system."
Three former senior members of Mueller's team, including former deputy special counsel Aaron Zebley, will teach the course. Mueller will lead at least one class for the course, which is called "The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel" and is slated to begin this fall, according to the school. Mueller said:
"I was fortunate to attend UVA Law School after the Marine Corps, and I'm fortunate to be returning there now. I look forward to engaging with the students this fall."The course at the University of Virginia School of Law will be taught in person and consist of six sessions in total. The instructors will "start chronologically" from the launch of Mueller's investigation in 2017.
Should we allow anyone, from anywhere, to come here at any time? Amid the political establishment's promotion of all immigration as virtuous and their relentless attacks on all things traditional or patriotic, we can demand something better: An immigration system that is good for America and requires that the immigrants we admit want to be Americans.
Immigration has long nourished our country. Our parents were immigrants, like those rooting nearly every American family tree, and we support legal immigration. Yet we also believe we ought to lock our national doors at night, not because we hate the people on the outside, but because we love the people on the inside.
Wolf - who had nearly 150,000 followers - was suspended from Twitter on Friday evening following her repeated commentary against Covid-19 vaccinations. Though it's not clear exactly which post led to Wolf's suspension, the author had a history of making anti-vaccine comments and had published several on the day of her ban.
Comment: One person's 'vaccine disinformation' is another person's 'lifesaver'. Removing individual responsibility by banning information helps no one. It serves an agenda.
In a shocking letter to Francis, which Marx released to journalists June 4, the cardinal says he wants to "share the responsibility" for the way priests and bishops mishandled abuse cases. He also admits he feels "personally guilty" for trying to protect the reputation of the church when dealing with victims.
Marx, in the letter, dated May 21, writes:
"To assume responsibility, it is ... not enough in my opinion to react only and exclusively if the files provide proof of the mistakes and failures of individuals. We as bishops have to make clear that we also represent the institution of the Church as a whole."In resigning, the cardinal states:
"I may be able to send a personal signal for a new beginning, for a new awakening of the Church, not only in Germany. I would like to show that not the ministry is in the foreground but the mission of the Gospel. I therefore strongly request you to accept this resignation."Marx has led his archdiocese since 2007. He also serves as one of only seven members of Francis' advisory Council of Cardinals and as the coordinator of the Vatican's Council for the Economy, which supervises the financial activities of both the Vatican city-state and the offices of the Holy See.
Speaking exclusively to Middle East Eye, Abdul Kareem accused Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the HTS leader, of being "unfit to rule" and of lying about conditions in the organisation's prisons.
Jolani denied in an interview broadcast this week on the US PBS network that detainees held by the group were being tortured.
Abdul Kareem is currently banned by HTS from reporting, or appearing on social media, as a condition of his release from prison in February. He admitted he was putting himself in jeopardy by speaking out against the group, though he said he had left the territory under HTS control.
HTS is an alliance of Islamist militant factions which has controlled most of Idlib since 2017 and has been one of the most effective opposition fighting forces during Syria's decade-long civil war. But it is considered a terrorist organisation by the UN, the US and many other Western countries and has been accused of atrocities, executions and war crimes by human rights monitors.
The Big Tech giant will revisit the suspension two years from the date of Trump's original ban, January 7.
Assuming he is then reinstated, Trump will face a "strict set of rapidly escalating sanctions" if he commits further violations, including a permanent ban on his account, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Comment: This is the exact opposite of the rumors that have been floating around. From Becker News:
Donald Trump's social media accounts on Instagram and Facebook appear to be restored. The header for Facebook was updated to his alert "Text Vote to 88022":
The president's Instagram account also appears to be restored:
Daily Caller's senior correspondent Henry Rodgers reported the news.Trump is back on Instagram and Facebook. pic.twitter.com/EsohdQlSgoMany of Trump's followers on Twitter wondered when the website will follow suit. But Twitter has made it a point that Donald Trump is never going to be allowed back on the website, which has stirred a great deal of controversy.
— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) June 2, 2021
The news follows upon Donald Trump shutting down his "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump" website permanently, as reported earlier.
The website is now replaced with a page for subscribers to receive "alerts" from the president. Trump adviser Jason Miller told CNBC, which first reported the page's shutdown, that the blog is being shut down for good.
"It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on," Miller told Axios.
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Update: Facebook says Trump remains suspended, despite the recent changes to the accounts.
"No. Nothing about the status of President Trump's presence on our platform has changed. He remains indefinitely suspended," Andy Stone of Facebook said in a response on Twitter. It is unclear how the accounts were altered recently if Trump's team was locked out.
'One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter' is a flowery way of saying actions can be interpreted differently, depending on your viewpoint.
It's a scenario acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has often encountered and, unfortunately, is in again.
Comment: Freedom of speech, freedom of expression - these are long dead and gone in the west, despite the fact that many still cling to their shadows and ghosts. These days, people are simply too fragile to want to be confronted with their own hypocrisy.
See also:
- 'Danger to our time': Iconic Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei joins pro-Assange rally in Berlin
- Chase bank de-platforms conservative performance artist and Rebel Media host Martina Markota
- 'Color of skin... important'? Instagram censors artist's comic as 'dangerous' for verbatim quote of woke 'Sesame Street' episode
- Street artist SABO triggers the Left with 'Say Her Name' poster of woman shot by police at capitol protest
- Artist bragged he got Seattle tax dollars to paint anti-police messages
- Fair comment or racism? Award-winning German feminist artist under fire over 'Islamophobic' cartoons
- Italian artist who painted Ahed Tamimi mural arrested in Israel

A cicada nymph shell hangs from a tree at Rosemary Hills-Lyttonsville Local Park in Chevy Chase, Maryland, May 12, 2021
Beady-eyed and wriggling, hundreds of billions of cicadas emerged last month from their underground hibernation across the eastern United States. This year's crop of bugs are one of 15 broods, each of which emerges every 17 years to screech, mate, and eventually die off after around three weeks.
The cicadas are hunted for food by bats, wasps and birds, but this time they faced a new predator: man, or more specifically, a certain subspecies of liberal dying to wean his fellow man off a traditional meat-rich diet and onto a repulsive nutritional regimen of limbs, antennae and exoskeletons.
Comment: All part of the new agenda.See also:
- EU 'green' agenda calls for eating bugs to save the planet
- Disgusting: World Economic Forum encourages plebs to eat weeds & drink sewage to reduce CO2 emissions
- In 2020 prepare to eat bugs, bags and weed
- World's largest insect farm to be built in Illinois amid signs of soaring food inflation
















Comment: Either these clowns have learned nothing, or they are deliberately hamstringing any possibility of future fair elections. Mail-in voting is ripe for fraud.