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Virginia parents file lawsuit against school board over 'equity ambassador program'

Chrissy Clark
The Daily Wire
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:11 UTC
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A group of Virginia parents filed a federal lawsuit against Loudoun County Public School (LCPS) district's school board for allegedly "violating students' free speech rights."

According to a press release from the plaintiff, the school has created two programs that allegedly push a progressive ideology on all students. The first program is the "Student Equity Ambassador Program" and the second is a "bias reporting system." The plaintiffs consider both to be "illegal."

"Over the past two years, the board and administrators have incorporated controversial and radical political theory into school curriculum," the press release reads. "Now they are asking students to be vocal supporters of these political views or face being excluded from school leadership positions and reported through a new 'bias reporting' system."

The "Student Equity Ambassador Program" is a program designed for minority students to inform on their peers about potential racial insensitivity or "microaggressions." The "bias reporting system" falls under the purview of the equity ambassador program, though any student can anonymously report on a peer.

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It's madness that therapists are cultivating fear about leaving lockdown - most of us can't wait to escape our Covid-19 caves

Frank Furedi
RT
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 00:37 UTC
Freedom over fear
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London, UK.
As restrictions start to ease, the MSM is full of alarmist stories from self-help quacks ramping up fear about a return to normality. But this determination to normalise lockdown constitutes a major threat to our freedom.

It seems that the therapy industry is determined to turn lockdown into a permanent lifestyle. Almost daily, we hear of yet another mental health professional warning about the psychological dangers associated with people's anxieties about returning to normal.

The headline in the New Yorker says it all: "Reopening anxiety: What if we're scared to go back to normal life?" You might have thought that what many people are most anxious about is the delay in getting back our normal freedoms. Not according to the New Yorker. The article cites numerous experts and therapists, who appear determined to highlight the mental turmoil facing people entering the post-Covid-19 real world.

According to Priya Parker, a so-called 'conflict resolution facilitator', "our social muscles have atrophied". She calls going back to normality the phase of "re-entry". She adds, "there's extraordinary anxiety in that phase, and it's not illogical or irrational anxiety".
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Global food costs surge to decade high

Megan Durisin
Yahoo
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 06:08 UTC
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Global food prices have extended their rally to the highest in almost a decade, heightening concerns over bulging grocery bills at a time when economies are struggling to overcome the Covid-19 crisis.

A United Nations gauge of world food costs climbed for a 12th straight month in May, its longest stretch in a decade. The relentless advance risks accelerating broader inflation, complicating central banks efforts to provide more stimulus.

Drought in South America has withered crops from corn and soybeans to coffee and sugar. Record purchases by China are worsening the supply crunch in grains and boosting costs for global livestock producers. Cooking oils have soared too on demand for biofuel. The surge in food costs has revived memories of 2008 and 2011, when spikes led to riots in more than 30 nations.


Comment: And, after a year of lockdowns, people are in a much more precarious position.


Comment: With increasingly erratic seasons and extreme weather events, lockdown's causing unprecedented waste, cattle and poultry disease outbreaks, political interference and mismanagement, and now there's suspicious cyberattacks to contend with, the past decade and more has decimated food stocks and production, and the possibility of food shortages in the near future is very real.

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Daily Wire journalist Matt Walsh raises $65K to help AOC's abandoned abuela

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 22:11 UTC
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After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) revealed this week that her grandmother is living in a dilapidated home in Puerto Rico, which she blamed on former President Trump, scores of people began wondering why the well-off Congresswoman (who lied about growing up poor) allowed her abuela to live in squalor while she lives it up in DC.

Confronted with her own virtue-signaling, AOC spat out a word salad.
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New poll reveals big majority of Germans desire CLOSER relationship with Moscow, while EU-Russia relations are getting worse

Jonny Tickle
RT
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 21:18 UTC
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A survey by Berlin pollster Forsa has revealed that almost two-thirds of Germans want an improved relationship with Russia. This comes after a year in which the two countries have cooperated and clashed heads in equal measure.

Commissioned by the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (OA), an interest group that pushes Berlin to trade more with the east of the continent, the poll showed that the majority (62%) of Germans want to improve the country's relationship with Russia.

"If it were up to the wishes of the German population, the EU-Russia relationship would be significantly expanded in many different fields," OA chair Oliver Hermes said, noting that the people see value in cooperation and closer relations, especially in the economy and the energy sector.

Comment: With completion of the German leg of the Nordstream Pipeline nearing, Germany is edging ever closer to Russia. If it continues it will have profound effects on the strength of the European Union, as Germany is its economic linchpin. It appears that, softly, softly, Russia is drawing European countries into its economic orbit. Washington, having nothing to offer but sanctions, weapons and over-priced LNG, will not be happy.

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Chuck Grassley blasts DOJ for politicized prosecutions of US Capitol rioters after year of violent riots

Maggie Hroncich
The Federalist
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Car burning
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Atlanta Riots
Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking Republican of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to "treat all forms of domestic extremism equally."

Grassley questioned the Department of Justice's approach to federal prosecutions of rioters. More than half of all Portland riot cases were or will be dismissed, but when it comes to handling cases of rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, more than 400 defendants were charged.

Grassley pointed to the "enormous and unprecedented" violence of 2020, citing a Princeton study that found more than 500 unique riots broke out across the country last year. The letter also refers to 14,000 people arrested in 49 cities, the hundreds of injured police officers, and the violent siege of the courthouse in Portland. Grassley wrote:
"While the Department of Justice under your leadership spares no effort to prosecute every offense including misdemeanors and trespass if associated with the Capitol breach, which I find no fault with, the same cannot be said of the hundreds of riots that occurred in 2020. This leniency is distinct from the aggressive prosecution of January 6 related crimes. The law must be applied equally without regard to party, power or privilege."
In light of the DOJ's request for an additional $1.5 billion to combat terrorism, Grassley is concerned that the funds could be mishandled.
"I can only imagine that this money will continue to resource the institutional bias that continues to exist for the Department's historical areas of expertise, militia extremism and white supremacism."
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Support for Israel is even dropping among evangelical Christians

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Netanyahu
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Israeli PM Netanyahu speaks at Evangelical Christian movement meeting, Jerusalem 2012
Two incredible polls were released recently. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) commissioned the Barna Group to survey evangelical Christians about their views on Israel/Palestine. This undertaking might seem academic to some, as evangelicals have long been associated with enthusiastic and consistent support Israel. There's been a vast amount of literature and commentary on Christian Zionism, and you can find a whole lot of it in the Mondoweiss archives. While we've seen notable opinion shifts on Israel among Democratic voters or young Jews, there can't possibly be any cracks developing among evangelicals, right?

There is actually. In fact, the poll suggests support is about to drop considerably in the coming years. Only 33.6% of young evangelicals (between the ages of 18 and 29) said they support Israel. 24.3% said they support Palestine. 42.2% said they support neither side in the conflict. Compare this survey to a similar one that was carried out by UNCP professors just a few years ago, in 2018. A staggering 69% of young evangelicals said they supported Israel back then and just 5.6% said they supported the Palestinians. 25.7% didn't take a side.

One of the professors told the Times of Israel:
"It's become evident that Israel is developing a public relations problem with younger Americans. We see it with evangelicals as with American Jews and other groups."

Comment: As sentiment against Israel swells and belief diminishes, it is unlikely this secretive and criminal country will abide the trend without challenge or mechanisms to checkmate the tide. As one mask comes off, a new one will take its place.

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Fire

Minneapolis cops shoot armed fugitive dead, sparks new destructive protests

Lee Brown
New York Post
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 17:56 UTC
Winston Boogie Smith shot minneapolis riots
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Winston Boogie Smith was fatally shot in his car by police after allegedly pulling a gun on them during his arrest on June 3, 2021, in Minneapolis.
Angry protesters lit fires, looted stores and taunted cops in Minneapolis on Thursday after officers shot and killed a fugitive who whipped out a handgun when authorities closed in on him, police said.

Members of a US Marshals task force were attempting to arrest Winston Boogie Smith, 32, around 2 p.m. on a state warrant for being a criminal in possession of a firearm, authorities said.

"During the incident, the subject, who was in a parked car, failed to comply and produced a handgun resulting in task force members firing upon the subject," said the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department, which was part of the task force involved in the fatal arrest, in a statement.
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US Supreme Court rejects J&J's appeal against $2.1 billion damages award over claims asbestos-laced talc caused cancer


RT
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 06:54 UTC
Johnson & Johnson baby powder
© REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Bottles of Johnson & Johnson baby powder line a drugstore shelf in New York October 15, 2015.
The US Supreme Court has rejected Johnson & Johnson's appeal against a $2.1 billion damages award to women who claimed their ovarian cancer was a result of asbestos in the US pharmaceutical giant's talcum powder.

The court's decision not to hear the case means the earlier jury award, granted to 22 women in the US state of Missouri in 2018 after a class action lawsuit against J&J, still stands.

The case against J&J is the largest in its history, with the claimants originally awarded $4.7 billion in damages from the company, before the amount was reduced on appeal. Nine of the plaintiffs have died from ovarian cancer since they first launched their legal action, their lawyers said.

Last year the company said it would no longer sell its famous Baby Powder in the US and Canada after a 60% decline in sales.

Comment: The same company produces a vaccine now against the "deadly" Covid -19 virus. Their baby powder is deadly and toxic (which they knew and denied), but the vaccine produced by the same company is perfectly safe? Can people see the hidden games behind all this?

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Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million In Pentagon Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science

Sam Husseini
independentsciencenews.org
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:15 UTC
The Pentagon
© Credit the Smithsonian
The Pentagon
"Pandemics are like terrorist attacks: We know roughly where they originate and what's responsible for them, but we don't know exactly when the next one will happen. They need to be handled the same way — by identifying all possible sources and dismantling those before the next pandemic strikes."
This statement was written in the New York Times earlier this year by Peter Daszak. Daszak is the longtime president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based non-profit whose claimed focus is pandemic prevention. But the EcoHealth Alliance, it turns out, is at the very centre of the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways.

To depict the pandemic in such militarized terms is, for Daszak, a commonplace. In an Oct. 7 online talk organized by Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, Daszak presented a slide titled "Donald Rumsfeld's Prescient Speech.":
"There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns — there are things we don't know we don't know." (This Rumsfeld quote is in fact from a news conference)
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